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General view from NE showing Bute Museum and 3 Stuart Street, Rothesay, Bute
DP 135282
Description General view from NE showing Bute Museum and 3 Stuart Street, Rothesay, Bute
Date 6/3/2012
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 135282
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Rothesay grew up around the 13th-century circular Castle, becoming a royal burgh in 1400/1. The town expanded north along the High Street until two major phases of land reclamation in the 18th and 19th century. This shifted the main axis of the town along the shoreline, with the creation of Montague Street (mid- to late 18th century) and Victoria Street (1839-40). Subsequent development of the town took place along the shoreline, particularly as the town’s popularity as a tourist destination grew during the 19th century. The town centre has developed in a fairly ad hoc manner, as with so many historic towns. This has continued into the 21st century with redevelopment of historic buildings such as the Court House and other smaller infill. Located on the corner of Stuart Street and High Street, opposite Rothesay Castle, is this early 19th-century two-storeyed, three-bayed, plain Classical house at 3 Stuart Street (centre), with Bute Museum, built to designs by local architect Andrew Morrell McKinlay (1863-1947) in 1925-6, adjacent (right). 3 Stuart Street is plain in appearance and was subdivided into flats in 1937. Built of random rubble, it has a central entrance which incorporates a datestone inscribed '1626 - 1826' -possibly date of an original house on the site, and the date when the present house was erected. Bute Museum was commissioned by the Marquess of Bute and still operates as the island's museum, retaining many original internal features. Comprising a central two-storeyed pedimented entrance, with flanking single-storeyed pavilions, it has prominent quoins and a pedimented entrance doorway with a Georgian-style fanlight, below a tripartite Venetian first-floor window.
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