32 Columshill Street, Rothesay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 October 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.

32 Columshill Street, Rothesay

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 October 1980
Type
House
Address
32 Columshill Street, Rothesay, PA20 0HX
OS grid reference
NS 085 644
Coordinates
55.83553, -5.05877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

32 Columshill Street in Rothesay is an earlier 19th century, two-storey house with an attic, designed in a plain classical style. It is the end of a terrace and features a projecting central stair tower at the rear. The house can be accessed from both the front at No 32 Columshill Street and the rear at No 2 Columshill Place. The exterior is constructed from coursed Aberdeen bond rubble sandstone with raised, polished margins. It has a raised base course, a lintel course beneath the corniced eaves, and pilastered quoins. The quoins are made of droved yellow sandstone, and there are droved long and short surrounds to the openings, along with projecting cills. The basement, rear, and sides are finished in random rubble.

On the elevation facing Columshill Street, there are steps leading to a replacement small-paned door located in the central bay. This door is topped with a corniced doorpiece featuring a block pediment and a raised keystone. There are single windows flanking the door at ground level, and single windows in all bays on the first floor. The outer left and right bays have single slate-hung dormers, and there are rooflights in the center. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, has raised skews, and features corniced rendered apex stacks at both the north and south ends, along with various circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.

Local climate

32 Columshill Street, Rothesay 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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