Description

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical style house; rectangular-plan with projection at rear; single storey lean-to conservatory to left; single storey rubble sandstone outbuilding (garage) recessed to right. Painted render. Raised base course; corniced string course; raised lintel course beneath overhanging eaves; projecting cills. Decorative cast-iron porch; cast-iron brattishing.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf part-glazed timber door centred at ground; plate-glass fanlight; surrounding porch comprising stylised cast-iron pilasters to left and right; cast-iron brattishing surmounting cornice spanning central bay. Single window centred at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right.

Replacement glazing to all openings. Graded grey slate piended roof; cast-iron brattishing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDING: shared with adjacent No 9; single garage entrance at ground off-set to left of centre; graded grey slate piend.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped part-rendered sandstone wall to Marine Place; painted square-plan, stop-chamfered piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps; replacement cast-iron vehicular gates.

Statement of Interest

A simple but interesting house. Note the decorative use of cast-iron - a common feature in Rothesay. The stylised pilasters used here on the porch bear strong affinity with those on the nearby No 2 Marine Place (see separate list entry).

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 Q77770123

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