Description

Mid to later 19th century; flatted later 20th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style house forming near pair with adjacent No 15; projecting stair tower centred at rear (entrance No 14a). Whitewashed rubble; painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Pilastered quoins; painted sandstone mullions; projecting cills; pilastered entrance. Full-height canted bays to outer left and right; later single bay flat-roofed addition recessed to outer left (No 14a).

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single step to timber panelled door centred at ground; plate-glass fanlight; surrounding pilastered doorpiece comprising plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone. Single window at 1st floor aligned above entrance; 3-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light slate-hung dormers above. Small single pedimented dormer at centre.

Replacement glazing throughout. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; corniced rendered apex stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped whitewashed rubble wall to Battery Place; replacement timber pedestrian entry gate.

Statement of Interest

A simple flatted house which forms a prominent sea-front pair with the adjacent No 15 (see separate list entry). Whitewashed rubble, single storey outbuilding at rear.

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 Q77769863

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