4 King Street, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. House. 2 related planning applications.
4 King Street, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- ragged-mullion-larch
- Grade
- B
- 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
- House
- Address
- 4 King Street, Rothesay, Bute, PA20 0DB
- OS grid reference
- NS 087 646
- Coordinates
- 55.83687, -5.05616
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 King Street is a flatted house built in the earlier to mid 18th century, around 1749, and was rehabilitated in 1986. It features a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay design in a plain classical style, with a projecting stair tower at the rear. The exterior is made of red rubble sandstone, which has been recently cleaned, with polished sandstone margins. It has a raised base course and a lintel course beneath the corniced eaves. The quoins are droved red rubble, and there are droved long and short surrounds to the openings, along with projecting cills. The rear and sides are constructed of random rubble.
On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a timber panelled door centered at the ground level, topped by a four-light fanlight. There are single windows at the ground level in the outer left and right bays, and single windows in all bays on the first floor. The windows are 16-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, featuring raised skews and coped rendered apex stacks at the northeast and southwest, along with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
4 King 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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