69 And 71 Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute, Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

Entry Name: 69 And 71 Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 69 and 71 Victoria Street

Listing Date: 12 November 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391615

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44893

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391615

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Mid 19th century. Classically-detailed, symmetrical 3-storey with attic, 4-bay tenement forming part of terrace with shop and licensed premises at ground. Painted render; painted margins. Raised base course; corniced eaves; blocking course. Raised, painted margins; corniced, architraved surrounds at 1st floor (pedimented at centre); architraved surrounds to 2nd floor openings; projecting cills.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single door centred at ground (entrance upper flats); mosiac-tile floor detail; shop off-set to left of centre; licensed premises off-set to right. Regularly fenestrated in all bays at 1st and 2nd floors; 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern dormer glazing. Grey slate roof; coped ridge stacks to E and W; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Despite alterations at ground and overall state of disrepair, 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).

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