View of lantern above gates in boundary wall to 3 Ardbeg Road, Ardbeg, Rothesay, Bute, from NE

Description View of lantern above gates in boundary wall to 3 Ardbeg Road, Ardbeg, Rothesay, Bute, from NE

Date 27/4/2011

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 098699

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The main focus for expansion in the outer reaches of Rothesay was along the shoreline, or along Ardbeg Road further inland, heading for Port Bannatyne. Development in the later 19th and early 20th century saw the area between Marine Place and Ardbeg Road being infilled with single- and two-storeyed, semi-detached houses. The original property at 3 Ardbeg Road was demolished and a modern detached house built on its plot. There is some evidence of its predecessor with ruins of outbuildings to the left of the modern house, and a decorative cast-iron lamp arches over the entrance in the boundary wall to Ardbeg Road. The lamp rests on a slender twisted cast-iron arch, and is topped with a ball finial. The gate piers are square with pyuramidal tops. The use of decorative cast-iron is a common feature throughout Rothesay's townscape, of which this is a rare example within the Ardbeg Area of Townscape Character.

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