Description

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house entered at front and rear. Coursed grey sandstone rubble; painted margins; painted strip quoins. Raised base course; raised eaves course beneath moulded timber eaves. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; round-arched bipartite glazing. Random rubble sandstone at rear; rubble quoins; stugged red sandstone long and short surrounds to openings; exterior stair; rendered full-height single bay addition; projecting cills.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: replacement timber panelled door recessed at centre; bipartite fanlight. Regularly fenestrated in remaining bays at ground and 1st floors.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: exterior stair comprising stone treads, cast-iron uprights, cast-iron handrail off-set to left of centre to boarded timber door at 1st floor; leaded fanlight; full-height projection advanced to right. Single windows at both floors in bay to outer left; single windows at both floors in 2 bays to outer right.

Round-arched bipartite timber sash and case windows to front; 2-pane timber sash and case windows at rear. Graded grey slate roof (slightly bell-cast); coped apex stacks to N and S; octagonal cans to S; circular cans to N.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped random rubble boundary wall; corniced square-plan, whitewashed gatepiers to Alma Terrace; coped square-plan, whitewashed gatepiers to Ballochgoy Road.

Statement of Interest

Ground floor empty 1996. Note the unusual glazing.

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

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)