Description

Circa 1820. Rectangular-plan, 3-storey plain classical style corner tenement with shops at ground; 2 bays to Montague Street (S); 6 bays to Tower Street (W); with prominent slightly recessed bowed corner. Painted render at ground; yellow sandstone ashlar to upper floors. Raised base course; cill course beneath 1st floor windows; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Architraved, fielded rectangular-panel detailing between upper floors to Montague Street and between upper floors in 2 bays to right of centre to Tower Street.

S (MONTAGUE STREET) ELEVATION: shops at ground. Slightly recessed architraved windows at 1st and 2nd floors. Slightly recessed full-height bow to outer left angle with later door at ground, single windows at both floors above.

W (TOWER STREET) ELEVATION: replacement timber panelled door at ground off-set to left of centre; shops to left and right. Single windows in 4 bays to left at 1st and 2nd floors; blind bays at both floors in 2 bays to right, with fielded panels.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stacks to W, various circular cans.

Statement of Interest

B-Group with 37 Victoria Street, 39 and 41 Victoria Street, 60 and 62 Montague Street and 64, 66, 68 Montague Street (see separate listings).

The building is an early tenement block on a prominent corner site. The block is well detailed with prominent architectural features such as the distinctive bowed bay and cast-iron shop fronts. The ground floor shop fronts are well detailed with some cast iron columns and pilasters. The use of the slightly recessed bowed bay was influential and is a motif featured in later tenement designs in Rothesay.

Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, and it 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 more often 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 Q17775473

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