Description

Circa 1880. Symmetrical 4-storey, 7-bay tenement comprising full-height wide 6-light canted bay at centre (slightly recessed bowed corners), full-height 5-light projecting bows to outer left and right. Coursed yellow sandstone ashlar. Raised base course; raised string course; overhanging timber bracketed corniced eaves. Architraved, basket-arched windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors; architraved round-arched windows at 3rd floor; chamfered cills; part-fluted cast-iron Corinthian mullions to all. Harl-pointed random rubble at sides.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door (No 10) centred in advanced canted bay at ground; plate-glass fanlight; round-arched architraved surround; 2 single windows in bays to left and right of entrance. Regularly fenestrated at centre to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 2-leaf timber panelled door (No 9) at ground off-set to right of centre; plate-glass fanlight; round-arched architraved surround; single windows to all floors above; full-height 5-light bow to outer right. 2-leaf timber panelled door (No 10a) at ground off-set to left of centre; plate-glass fanlight; round-arched architraved surround; single windows to all floors above; full-height 5-light bow to outer left.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows (some replacement at ground). Grey slate roof; coped ridge stack at centre; coped wallhead stacks to NE and SW (single brick stack to outer left); octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped squared and snecked sandstone wall to Mount Stuart Road; square-plan sandstone gatepiers flank entrances, surmounting square caps.

Statement of Interest

An interesting example of 'glazed architecture' with its extraordinarily high ratio of glazing to wall. Note the cast-iron mullions, 2-pane sash and case windows and bracketed eaves. The decorative use of cast-iron is common in Rothesay (see list entries for No 20 Battery Place and Nos 48 & 49 Crichton Road). The central round-arched doorway is a distinctive feature of Rothesay tenements.

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 Q17775502

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