Description

Early 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan plain classical style house. Painted coursed rubble sandstone with ribbon-pointing; painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; blocking course. Pilastered quoins; pilastered enatrance; projecting cills. Single storey, lean-to addition at outer left; random rubble at sides.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central entrance comprising replacement glazed aluminium door; opaque fanlight; pilastered door surround with decorative frieze, cornice, block pediment. Single windows at ground in flanking bays to left and right; 3-light canted window at ground in bay to outer left (addition); single windows in all bays at 1st floor. 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right; piended single dormer at centre.

Replacement aluminium glazing to ground and 1st floors; 2-pane timber glazing to dormers. Grey slate-hung Mansard roof; raised stone skews; corniced apex stacks to N and S; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: whitewashed low coped sandstone wall to Argyle Place. Corniced, square-plan gatepiers to outer left and right; replacement cast-iron pedestrian entry gate.

Statement of Interest

Despite replacement glazing, the house retains architectural interest both in its classical detailing and prominent sea-front position. Note the Mansard roof, pilastered entry and corniced apex stacks.

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 Q77769828

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)