7-9 Argyle Street, Rothesay, Bute, Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

Entry Name: 7-9 Argyle Street, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 7, 8 and 9 Argyle Street

Listing Date: 12 November 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391446

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44789

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391446

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Dated 1882. Classically-detailed 4-storey, 4-bay tenement forming part of terrace with shops at ground. Yellow sandstone ashlar; raised ashlar margins. Corniced at ground; architraved string courses; raised lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Architraved and corniced windows at 1st and 2nd floors, flanking consoles, projecting corbelled cills at 2nd and 3rd floors; bipartite windows in bays to outer left and right (stone pilaster mullions). Decorative armorial panel centred at 2nd floor.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground off-set to right of centre; replacement doors to left; shopfronts set between. Bipartite windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors in bays to outer left and right; single windows to all floors in 2 central bays.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows (replacement glazing at 2nd floor off-set to left of centre, 3rd floor off-set to right). Grey slate roof; corniced apex stacks to NW and SE, circular cans; corniced wallhead stack centred at front embossed "1882"; cans missing.

Statement of Interest

Despite ground floor alterations, the block retains architectural interest both in its classical detailing and in its position within a prominent sea-front terrace.

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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