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20-24 Columshill Street, Rothesay

A Category C Listed Building in Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8358 / 55°50'8"N

Longitude: -5.0588 / 5°3'31"W

OS Eastings: 208547

OS Northings: 664518

OS Grid: NS085645

Mapcode National: GBR FFW9.3JX

Mapcode Global: WH1LM.8L92

Plus Code: 9C7PRWPR+8F

Entry Name: 20-24 Columshill Street, Rothesay

Listing Name: 20, 22 and 24 Columshill Street

Listing Date: 13 October 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 386410

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40480

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200386410

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. Near-symmetrical pair of 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted houses forming part of terrace; pend entrance to No 22 centred at ground. Random rubble sandstone; raised, painted margins. Tooled rubble sandstone quoins; tooled rubble long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills. Random rubble at side.

E (COLUMSHILL STREET) ELEVATION: replacement small-paned doors at ground in penultimate bays to outer left (No 24) and right (No 20); flanking single windows; small-paned door centred at ground (No 22). Regularly fenestrated in all bays at 1st floor; 3-light slate-hung canted dormers to each in bays to outer left and right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; raised skew to S; corniced rendered central ridge stack; apex stacks to N and S; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Originally millworkers' housing. 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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