65 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. 1 related planning application.

65 High Street, Rothesay, Bute

WRENN ID
outer-terrace-nightshade
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
Address
65 High Street, Rothesay, Bute, PA20 9AU
OS grid reference
NS 088 644
Coordinates
55.83567, -5.05392
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

61 High Street in Rothesay, Bute, is an early 19th century building, dating around 1820. It is a symmetrical pair of two-storey, three-bay cottages that form a low rectangular-plan terrace with shops on the ground floor. The exterior features painted harl with painted margins and overhanging eaves. At the rear, there is a single-storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding (No 65) constructed from part whitewashed random rubble.

The entrance elevation for Nos 61 and 67 has boarded timber doors located in the penultimate bays to the outer left and right, with flanking single windows. There are also single windows at ground level in the outer right and left bays, and a square opening in the centre that was formerly a sink. The first floor is regularly fenestrated.

The windows have 12-pane timber casement glazing, and the roof is covered with graded grey slate. It features raised skews, coped apex stacks at both the north and south ends, a coped ridge stack at the centre, and various circular cans.

Inside, the building has been converted for shop and office use, with some decorative timber panelling around the fireplace, carved thistle motifs, and egg-and-dart cornice carving.

No 65 has been converted for use as a store, featuring single openings in the bays to the left and right of the centre, along with a boarded timber addition to the outer right. It also has a graded grey slate roof.

Local climate

65 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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