8 Columshill Place, Rothesay, Bute, Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

Entry Name: 8 Columshill Place, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 8 Columshill Place

Listing Date: 13 October 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391478

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44820

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391478

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Mid 19th century; rehabilitated 1983. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house forming end of terrace with projecting stair tower at rear. Coursed cherry-cocked rubble sandstone; polished yellow sandstone margins. Raised base course; stugged grey and yellow sandstone quoins; stugged grey and yellow sandstone long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills. Random rubble at basement and side.

S (COLUMSHILL PLACE) ELEVATION: central entrance at ground with stairs through renovated vestibule; single windows at ground to outer left and right; single windows in all bays at 1st floor; 3-light slate-hung canted dormers in bays to outer left and right.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; raised skews; corniced rendered apex stacks to E and W; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Originally millworkers' housing. Previously listed with No 6 Columshill Place (see separate list entry). Rehabilitated by the Bute Housing Association.

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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