Description

Later 19th century. Symmetrical single storey with basement and attic, 3-bay plain classical style house on sloping site. Whitewashed stugged sandstone; painted margins. Raised cill course; overhanging timber eaves; decorative cast-iron finials surmounting dormers. Tooled squared and snecked sandstone rubble at sides and rear; stugged quoins.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; bipartite fanlight set in architraved surround; boarded timber gabled dormer aligned above. Bipartite windows at ground flanking entrance (stone mullions); 3-light canted dormers above.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: single round-arched window centred at ground (raised keystone surmounting surround); single window in bay to outer right.

2-pane timber sash and case windows at ground; 4-pane timber sash and case dormers (4-pane casement at centre). Graded grey slate roof; slate-hung dormers; corniced sandstone apex stacks to SE and NW; octagonal cans (full sets to each).

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped whitewashed rubble wall to front; whitewashed obelisk-style panelled gatepiers flanking pedestrian entrance; pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

An interesting, if simple house with some good detailing - note the 2-leaf timber panelled door, plate-glass fanlight, sash and case windows, octagonal cans and panelled piers.

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 Q77770227

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