General view from NW showing 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60 Mount Stuart Road (Albany Terrace), Craigmore, Rothesay, Bute

Description General view from NW showing 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60 Mount Stuart Road (Albany Terrace), Craigmore, Rothesay, Bute

Date 23/5/2012

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

Catalogue Number DP 139617

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Craigmore developed as a destination for the wealthier residents and visitors to Rothesay during the 19th century. It consists of detached and semi-detached villas set in medium to large-sized plots along the shoreline. Its development was restricted by Common Hill rising steeply behind. The group of three double villas at 55-60 Mount Stuart Road form John Duncan's Albany Terrace dating from 1882. All villas display decorative cast-iron verandahs enclosing the entrance doorways and brattishing to the tops of the French 'pavilion-towers' in the outermost bays (left and right). The use of decorative ironwork such as this can be seen throughout Rothesay but especially in Craigmore's villas. All have large full-height bay windows on the front elevations to take full advantage of the view and maximise the light into the buildings. Mount Stuart Road consists of four sets of similar double-villa terraces: Wimbleton, Royal Terrace, Albany Terrace and Elysium Terrace. These terraces were built by prominent local architects John Orkney (1828-1909) and John Duncan (1835-1912), both of whom carried out a large number of developments elsewhere in Rothesay.

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