Description

Later 19th century; converted to convalescent home later 20th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 3- by 5-bay gabled house with half-timber Tudor detailing at 1st floor; later additions at rear. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone; red sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised plinth; architraved string course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Red ashlar quoins; long and short ashlar surrounds to chamfered openings; stone mullions to bipartites and canted windows; corniced, round-arched doorpiece; timber bracketed balcony at 1st floor. Piended single storey, 2-bay stugged red sandstone outbuilding to W; piended single storey, 3-bay outbuilding to NW (linking block forming L-plan partly demolished).

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay; advanced gables at centre and outer right. Steps to round-arched 2-leaf timber panelled door set in architraved surround in recessed bay to outer left; raised keystones; sculpted figure clasping urn to upper left; panelled frieze beneath cornice; single window breaking eaves at 1st floor. Advanced central bay comprising 3-light canted corner window off-set to left of centre; timber balustraded balcony beneath bipartite window centred in slightly bell-cast apex above. Advanced bay to outer right comprising 4-light canted windows at both floors; flanking timber brackets at 1st floor supporting slightly bell-cast eaves.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay grouped 2-1-1-1. Small corniced bipartite windows at ground in 2 bays to outer right; single window breaking eaves at 1st floor. 4-light canted windows at both floors in advanced gabled bay at centre (timber brackets beneath bell-cast eaves); bipartite windows at both floors in penultimate bay to outer left; single windows at ground and 1st floors in gabled bay to outer left. Later single storey, single bay addition recessed to outer left.

Predominantly 9-pane upper, plate glass lower timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; terracotta ridge tiling; original cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped and corniced red sandstone wallhead stacks; circular terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: adapted for use as convalescent home; timber skirting boards; timber panelling; plaster cornice-work. Timber balustraded stair; moulded newels; timber handrail; leaded bipartite stair window.

OUTBUILDINGS: boarded timber 2-leaf opening in bay to outer left W block; large (garage) opening in bay to right. Single window centred in E wing to former L-plan outbuilding; flanking single doors.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped squared and snecked red sandstone wall enclosing site to E and S. Stop-chamfered piers flanking side entrance from Ardencraig Road; tapering octagonal caps; cast-iron gates; octagonal piers flanking entrance from SE; circular caps; replacement cast-iron vehicular access gates; square-plan piers flanking entrance from Craigmore Road; pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

An imposing house with many original features - in particular, the bracketed balcony, half-timbering, sash and case windows, cast-iron rainwater goods, round-arched entrance and terracotta ridge detailing. Despite internal conversion, architectural interest is retained.

Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and incorporates an earlier medieval settlement. The town retains a wide range of buildings characteristic of its development as a high status 19th century holiday resort, including a range of fine villas, a Victorian pier and promenade.

The history and development of Rothesay is defined by two major phases. The development of the medieval town, centred on Rothesay Castle, and the later 19th and early 20th century development of the town as a seaside resort. Buildings from this later development, reflect the wealth of the town during its heyday as a tourist destination, and include a range of domestic and commercial architecture of a scale sometimes found in larger burghs. Both the 19th and early 20th century growth of the town, with a particular flourish during the inter-war period, included areas of reclaimed foreshore, particularly along the coast to the east of the town and around the pier and pleasure gardens.

(List description revised as part of Rothesay listing review 2010-11).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77769961

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