Description

Mid 19th century. Classically-detailed, symmetrical 3-storey with attic, 4-bay tenement forming part of terrace with shops at ground. Painted render; painted margins. Raised base course; corniced eaves. Corniced, architraved windows at 1st floor; architraved surrounds to 2nd floor openings.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: consoled door centred at ground (entrance upper flats); mosiac-tile floor detail to flanking shops. Regularly fenestrated in all bays at 1st and 2nd floors; 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right.

Plate-glass upper, 2-pane lower timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; 2-pane timber sash and case windows at 2nd floor off-set to left of centre; replacement timber glazing at 2nd floor off-set to right. Grey slate roof; central corniced wallhead stack to N comprising splayed base, decorative fluting, circular cans; coped ridge stacks to E and W; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Despite replacement glazing, this block plays a key role in a sea-front terrace unified by colour and scale. The majority of buildings in this stretch have been painted cream with a pale green highlighting the raised stone dressings.

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 Q77770212

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