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Summary

Description

John Duncan, 1894. Symmetrical 2-storey, 4-bay classical style double villa grouped 1-2-1; advanced end bays; decorative cast-iron verandah spanning 2 central bays; projecting harled porches recessed to outer left and right. Predominantly squared and snecked stugged yellow sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base and string courses; corbelled timber corniced eaves. Polished quoins; full-height ashlar canted bays; chamfered openings; architraved cills; corbelled cills at ground in central bays. Harl-pointed rubble at sides and rear. Piended single storey, harl-pointed rubble outbuilding to rear; stugged yellow sandstone quoins; stugged long and short rubble dressings to openings.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION EDGEHILL: piended single storey porch at centre comprising timber bracketed eaves, decorative cast-iron brattishing. 2-leaf timber panelled door centred within; plate-glass fanlight; segmental-arched architraved door-surround, raised keystone; single (narrow) window aligned at 1st floor; single window at ground off-set to left of centre; single window at 1st floor in bay to outer right.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION HILLPARK: piended single storey porch as above; single (narrow) window aligned at 1st floor. 2-leaf timber panelled door as above set in re-entrant angle to left.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors in 2 central bays; projecting verandah beneath 1st floor windows comprising paired cast-iron composite columns, foliate spandrels, curvilinear parapet detailing. 3-light canted windows at both floors in advanced bays to outer left and right.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 8-bay at ground, 4-bay at 1st floor. Piended single storey additions at ground off-set to right and left of centre respectively; single windows in remaining bays at both floors.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to front; predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows to rear. Graded grey slate piend; raised stone skews; corniced ridge and wallhead stacks; octagonal cans. Slate-hung outbuilding at rear; coped ridge stack at centre; circular cans.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibules; timber panelled doors; plaster cornice work; timber skirting boards; original stairs.

OUTBUILDING: 4-bay former wash-house. Blind single opening in bay to outer right; single doors in remaining bays to left. Coped coursed sandstone ridge stack at centre; 2 circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped part-rendered random rubble wall to Eastlands Road; whitewashed square-plan gatepiers flanking entrance to Edgehill; replacement cast-iron gates to Hillpark.

Statement of Special Interest

Thought to be the last project by John Duncan, whose other developments include Royal Terrace, 1877 and Albany Terrace, 1882 (see separate list entries). Similar features can be detected throughout - note the timber bracketed eaves, decorative cast-iron brattishing, full-height canted windows, consoled cills and cast-iron columnar verandahs. Lawson sites Duncan as having also been behind Brighton Terrace, Crichton Road, 1878, another symmetrical terrace of double villas (see separate list entry).

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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