View of Bute Museum, Stuart Street, Rothesay, Bute, from NW

Description View of Bute Museum, Stuart Street, Rothesay, Bute, from NW

Date 6/3/2012

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

Catalogue Number DP 135283

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 an early 19th-century two-storeyed, three-bayed, plain Classical house at 3 Stuart Street (far left), with Bute Museum, built to designs by local architect Andrew Morrell McKinlay (1863-1947) in 1925-6, adjacent (right). 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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