Description

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

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps to recessed replacement door centred at ground; opaque-glass fanlight; pilastered doorpiece comprising plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone. Single windows aligned above entrance at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light slate-hung dormers above. Small bipartite round-arched dormer at centre.

Modern glazing to dormers; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to remaining openings. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; coped apex stack to SW; corniced apex stack to NE; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

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

Statement of Interest

A simple house which forms a prominent sea-front pair with the adjacent No 14 (see separate entry).

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 Q77769866

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