Description

Mid 19th century. Set of 3 single storey with basement and attic, 2-bay classically-detailed houses forming near-symmetrical 6-bay terrace. Whitewashed coursed rubble sandstone; raised, painted dressings. Band course at principal floor; raised lintel course beneath corniced eaves; blocking course. Pilastered quoins; raised margins; balustraded detail beneath projecting cills; stylised pediments above pilastered doorpieces. Segmental-arched windows at basement; projecting cills. Cast-iron balustraded stairs; cast-iron handrails.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps oversailing basement to paired entrance off-set to right of centre (Nos 30 and 32); timber panelled doors; 6-light fanlights; surrounding doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, dentil detailing beneath plain frieze, cornice, stylised pediments. Single windows at basement and ground floors in flanking bays; 3-light canted dormers above. Steps oversailing basement to timber panelled door at ground in penultimate bay to outer left (No 34); 6-light fanlight; surrounding single doorpiece as above; single windows at basement and ground floors in bay to outer left; 3-light canted dormer above.

Replacement glazing; rooflights. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; stop-chamfered ridge and apex stacks; octagonal flues (missing to S); circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped rendered wall to Mount Pleasant Road; square-plan gatepiers flanking pedestrian entrances; pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Note the timber panelled doors, 6-light fanlights, pilastered doorpieces and balustraded detailing beneath ground floor windows. Walker notes this "...fine painted terrace, its pilastered quoins and doorways linked through in a good eaves cornice" (p151).

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 Q77770196 Q77770199 Q77770204

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