Public House, 3 East Princes Street, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Tenement.
Public House, 3 East Princes Street, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- secret-string-yarrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 090 646
- Coordinates
- 55.83728, -5.05165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a public house located at 3 East Princes Street in Rothesay, Bute, and it was completed in 1908. It is a symmetrical four-storey, three-bay tenement featuring licensed premises and a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is made of coursed red sandstone ashlar with a polished granite base course. It has corniced string courses, a raised cill course at the second floor, an architraved cill course at the third floor, and corniced eaves. The sides of the building are finished with whitewashed harl.
On the northwest elevation, the ground floor features a shop in the outer right bay, with a pend entry (No 2) slightly off-set to the right of the center. Above the entry is a round-arched plate-glass fanlight set in an architraved surround, leading to a glazed-tile vestibule. The remaining bays to the left of center also contain licensed premises, with a mosaic-tile floor detail. There are single windows in the central bay at the first, second, and third floors, while the outer left and right bays have three-light canted windows on all floors. Off-set to the right of center at the second floor is a slightly raised armorial panel with a swept hoodmould, displaying "JMM 1908" below.
The first-floor windows have been replaced with uPVC, while the second and third floors retain two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features raised stone skews. There is a corniced red sandstone ashlar wallhead stack off-set to the right of center on the northwest, along with apex stacks to the northeast and southwest, and various circular cans.
Inside, the Golfer's Bar showcases a Glasgow Art Nouveau style with extensive timber panelling. The timber bar includes mirrored panels, Corinthian-columned timber balusters, stained glass cupboard-fronts, and dentil detailing beneath a round- and inverted ogee-arched cornice. The bar area is adorned with a floral frieze above golf-range maps and features painted strapwork ceiling decoration.
Local climate
Public House, 3 East Princes 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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