Description

Later 19th century. Rectangular-plan single storey, single bay former weighing house converted to form retail outlet late 20th century. Glazed bricks; red sandstone ashlar detailing; raised base course; bracketed timber eaves; shouldered-arch openings; ashlar cills. Weighing platform to side.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: boarded timber door off-set to right of centre; narrow window off-set to left.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: tripartite window at centre; rectangular weighing platform to front at ground inscribed "H Pooley & Son Ld Birmingham."

W (REAR) ELEVATION: narrow window off-set to right of centre; stepped stack to left.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: tripartite window at centre.

Refurbished timber casements and sash and case windows. Graded grey slate piended roof; foliate cast-iron brattishing. Square-plan coped wallhead stack to NW; single circular can.

WEIGH BRIDGE: rectangular iron weigh bridge set in ground.

Statement of Interest

A simple glazed-brick structure sympathetically converted to a small retail outlet.

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 Q77770091

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