51-53 High Street, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 1971. Flatted houses.

51-53 High Street, Rothesay, Bute

WRENN ID
grey-rotunda-jay
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 April 1971
Type
Flatted houses
OS grid reference
NS 088 645
Coordinates
55.83606, -5.05389
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

51-53 High Street in Rothesay, Bute, is a pair of early 19th century, two-storey, two-bay near-symmetrical flatted houses that form part of a terrace, with an attic at No 51. The buildings feature painted harl with painted margins, a raised base course, a lintel course beneath the eaves, and projecting cills. Notable quoin detailing is present on the outer right side.

The west entrance elevation includes a two-leaf timber panelled door in the outer left bay, which serves as the entrance to the upper flat at No 51, along with a plate-glass fanlight above. There is a single window at ground level in the bay to the right, and both bays have single windows on the first floor. Above, a three-light canted dormer is situated. In the penultimate bay to the outer right, there is another timber panelled door leading to the ground floor flat at No 53, which has an architraved surround and a plate-glass fanlight. The outer right bay also contains a single window at ground level, with single windows in both bays on the first floor.

The houses feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof with raised skews, a corniced wallhead stack at the centre, a corniced ridge stack, and circular cans.

Local climate

51-53 High Street, Rothesay, Bute sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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