Description

Mid to later 19th century; converted to part residential, part office use. Classically-detailed 2-storey with basement and attic, 4-bay pedimented block with gabled single bay advanced to outer right. Harl-pointed tooled rubble sandstone; polished sandstone margins; strip quoins. Polished band course at principal floor; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Corniced windows at ground floor; pediment detailing at 1st floor; stone mullions to bipartites; projecting cills.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to ground floor entrance in penultimate bay to outer right; stone treads, decorative cast-iron balustrade; tripartite fanlight; pedimented door-surround (entrance office). Single window aligned at 1st floor; 3-light canted dormer above. Regularly fenestrated at both floors in 2 bays to left of entrance; small pediment centred in apex above; single windows at both floors in bay to outer left; 3-light canted dormer off-set to right. Advanced bay to outer right comprising bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors (pedimented at 1st floor); single attic window centred in apex.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; replacement glazing to advanced bay to outer right; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to dormers. Graded grey slate roof; raised skews; replacement rainwater goods. Coped rendered apex stack to N; single circular can.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped rubble wall to Castle Street; replacement cast-iron railings. Square-plan polished sandstone piers flanking entrance; tiered pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Refurbished 1996. An impressive tenement forming part of a hillside terrace (see separate list entry for Nos 36 & 38 Castle Street). Here, note the bracketed eaves, corniced windows and use of pediments at 1st floor. Entrance to upper flats via entrance in adjacent block (No 36 & 38).

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 Q77769923

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)