1-5 Marine Court, Argyle 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. Residential, former hotel. 3 related planning applications.

1-5 Marine Court, Argyle Street, Rothesay, Bute

WRENN ID
peeling-ledge-grove
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
Residential, former hotel
Address
1-5 Marine Court, Argyle Street, Rothesay, Bute, PA20 0AX
OS grid reference
NS 084 650
Coordinates
55.84027, -5.06112
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-5 Marine Court is a former hotel built in the mid to late 19th century, now converted into separate flats. It is a near-symmetrical, two-storey building with an attic and three bays, located at the end of a terrace. The entrance is recessed to the outer right for Nos 1-5, with an additional entrance at the rear for Nos 7-8. The building features squared and snecked stugged red sandstone with raised, polished dressings, a raised base course, and corniced eaves. The ground floor windows have corniced, consoled surrounds, projecting cills, and stone mullions for the bipartite windows. The central bay has corniced, canted windows, while the attic windows are round-arched and set in a Mansard roof.

On the entrance elevation, there is a replacement timber panelled door in the outer left bay (No 6) with a plate-glass fanlight above. The surrounding doorpiece includes a consoled cornice, a round-arched pediment, and a decorative cast-iron porch with foliate detailing, supported by barley-sugar Corinthian columns on low coped flanking walls. The bay to the right of the entrance has bipartite windows on both floors, while the penultimate bay to the outer right features three-light canted windows on both floors. The outer right bay also has bipartite windows on both floors, and there are five attic windows evenly spaced. A replacement door is centered in a flat-roofed bay recessed to the right.

The building predominantly has 2-pane timber sash and case windows, with 6- and 8-pane windows in the canted sections. The graded grey slate Mansard roof has raised stone skews, cast-iron brattishing, and a coursed sandstone apex stack to the north with octagonal cans.

The boundary wall consists of a low coped red sandstone wall along Argyle Street, with square-plan gatepiers flanking the entrances on either side, topped with pyramidal caps, and decorative foliate cast-iron railings.

Local climate

1-5 Marine Court, Argyle 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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