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6 Columshill Place

A Category C Listed Building in Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8355 / 55°50'7"N

Longitude: -5.0593 / 5°3'33"W

OS Eastings: 208514

OS Northings: 664486

OS Grid: NS085644

Mapcode National: GBR FFW9.3BG

Mapcode Global: WH1LM.8L29

Plus Code: 9C7PRWPR+67

Entry Name: 6 Columshill Place

Listing Date: 13 October 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 386409

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40479

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200386409

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

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Description

Mid 19th century; rehabilitated 1983. 2-storey with attic, 2-bay plain classical style flatted house forming end of terrace; entered at front and rear. Coursed cherry-cocked, stugged grey sandstone; polished red sandstone margins. Raised lintel course; stugged red rubble quoins; stugged red rubble sandstone long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills. Random rubble at side.

E (COLUMSHILL PLACE) ELEVATION: replacement 2-leaf boarded timber door at ground in bay to left; plate glass fanlight; single window in bay to right. Single windows in both bays at 1st floor; 3-light slate-hung canted dormer off-set to right of centre.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; raised skews; coped rendered apex stack to E; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Originally millworkers' housing. Previously listed with No 8 Columshill Place (see separate list entry). Rehabilitated by the Bute Housing Association.

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).

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