23 Bishop Street, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 1971.
23 Bishop Street, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- proud-tower-yew
- Grade
- C
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 089 645
- Coordinates
- 55.8366, -5.05195
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
19-21 Bishop Street is a terrace of five single-storey cottages with attics, built in the early 19th century. The cottages are arranged in a stepped formation, with two, three, three, two, and three bays, ascending the hill.
No 19 features painted coursed tooled rubble sandstone with raised margins and a raised base course. No 21 is constructed from random rubble cherry-cocked sandstone, with droved red sandstone dressings, raised margins, and a raised base course. No 23 has painted stucco with painted margins and a slight base course on the outer right. No 25 also has painted stucco, painted margins, and a raised base course. No 27 is made of painted coursed rubble with raised margins and a raised base course. All cottages have a lintel course and heavy moulded eaves, with random rubble at the sides.
The west (entrance) elevation of No 19 has an exterior stair leading to a replacement door in the right bay, a single window in the left bay, and a boarded timber storage door at the basement. There is a three-light canted dormer in the left bay and a bipartite window set in a box dormer to the right. No 21 has steps leading to a timber panelled door, flanked by single windows, and three-light canted dormers in the outer left and right bays. No 23 features steps to a replacement door at the center, flanked by single windows, with three-light canted dormers in the outer bays and a pedimented round-arched rooflight at the center.
No 25 has a replacement door in the left bay, a single window in the right bay, a three-light canted dormer above, and a single rooflight to the left. No 27 includes steps to a timber panelled door with a timber mullioned geometric fanlight above, flanking single windows, and three-light canted dormers in the outer bays.
The cottages predominantly feature two-pane timber sash and case windows, with No 21 having replacement eight-pane timber windows. They have graded grey slate roofs, slate-hung dormers, and raised stone skews. The roofs are adorned with a regular arrangement of corniced ridge and apex stacks, along with various circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
23 Bishop 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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