Description

Early 19th century. Rectangular-plan 3-storey, 4-bay tenement forming end of terrace with shop and licensed premises at ground. Cherry-cocked grey rubble sandstone; heavy pointing. Droved quoins; droved long and short red rubble sandstone surrounds to polished upper openings; projecting cills; corniced eaves. Shopfronts at ground comprising random rubble at ground to right of centre (No 70), polished black granite to left (No 72 - 74); harled elevation to W.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: replacement timber door at ground in central bay; quadripartite fanlight; licensed premises to right. Replacement glazed timber door at ground to outer left (James McIntyre butcher); projecting sign on cast-iron bracket to left. Regularly fenestrated in all bays at 1st and 2nd floors.

Replacement windows at ground; boarded openings at 1st and 2nd floors. Grey slate roof; coped harled apex stack to W (cans missing).

INTERIOR: extensive tiling remains visible behind replacement panels at McIntyre?s Butchers.

Statement of Interest

Forms interesting block with the adjacent Nos 64 - 68 Montague Street (see separate list entry). Upper floors empty 1996. Note the glazed tiling within the Butcher's premises.

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 IDs Q77770185 Q77770192

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