Description

Duncan Dewar, 1911. Asymmetrical 2-storey with attic, 2-bay former United Free church with projecting Flemish-style tower to right; advanced gabled bay at centre; later single storey additions to S and E. Coursed, slightly bull-faced sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; corniced openings at ground and 1st floors; skewed gables; corniced eaves; overhanging bracketed eaves to square-plan tower. Raised ashlar quoins; long and short surrounds to openings; chamfered cills at ground to E; projecting cills to N; stone mullions; stained glazing. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone to sides and rear; polished dressings; harled later additions.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to tripartite entrance centred at ground; part-glazed 2-leaf timber panelled door; flanking bipartite windows; architraved panel dated ?1911? centred above. 6-light glazing row aligned at 1st floor; ?Enter His Courts With Thanksgiving? embossed in architraved panel below; circular attic window centred in apex. Advanced tower off-set to right of centre; curved hoodmould surmounting single circular window at ground; tripartite window aligned at 1st floor; 4 louvred openings equally disposed beneath slightly bell-cast modillioned eaves. Bipartite window at ground in single storey addition recessed to outer right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay with single storey additions to outer left. Corniced tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors in gabled bay to outer right; bipartite windows at ground in 4 bays to left; tripartite window set in single storey addition to outer left; flat-roofed, single storey addition beyond.

Predominantly stained leaded glazing. Graded grey slate roof; slate-hung piend surmounting tower; raised stone skews. Corniced apex stack to E; single circular can; coped central ridge stack (can missing); coped rendered wallhead stack to S addition; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped harl-pointed random rubble wall to High Street; cast iron railings.

Statement of Interest

No longer in ecclesiastical use. An unusual building with some interesting features - note the stained glazing, the stone-mullioned glazing rows and the bell-cast square-plan tower. The original plans show an interesting interior with hammerbeam roof, extensive timber panelling and a timber pulpit.

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 Q77770087

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