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7 Marine Place, Rothesay, Bute

A Category C Listed Building in Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8559 / 55°51'21"N

Longitude: -5.0628 / 5°3'45"W

OS Eastings: 208398

OS Northings: 666770

OS Grid: NS083667

Mapcode National: GBR FFW7.FQ5

Mapcode Global: WH1LM.62FL

Plus Code: 9C7PVW4P+9V

Entry Name: 7 Marine Place, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 7 Marine Place, Millerston House, Including Outbuilding and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 12 November 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391548

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44858

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391548

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure Outbuilding

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Description

Later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan plain classical style house. Coursed yellow sandstone ashlar. Raised base course; corniced string course; raised lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Polished surrounds to chamfered openings; stone mullions; decorative cast-iron porch. Random rubble sandstone rectangular-plan outbuilding recessed to left; tooled yellow sandstone dressings; timber eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to 2-leaf boarded timber door centred at ground; bipartite fanlight; overhanging porch comprising cast-iron barley-sugar columns flanking entrance; cast-iron spandrel detailing forming trefoil-headed openings at centre, right and left. Single window centred at 1st floor; round-arched attic window above; 3-light canted windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light canted dormers above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows at ground and 1st floors; modern glazing to attic. Graded grey slate roof; corniced apex stacks to N and S; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

E ELEVATION OUTBUILDING: 2 single boarded timber doors off-set to left and right of centre.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped part-rendered rubble sandstone wall to Marine Place; cast-iron pedestrian entry gate.

Statement of Interest

A simple but interesting house. Note the decorative use of cast-iron - a common feature in Rothesay (see list entry for No 8 Marine Place, Aros-Na-Mara).

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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