Post Office, 10-12 Bishop Street, Rothesay is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 1997. Post office. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office, 10-12 Bishop Street, Rothesay
- WRENN ID
- vast-turret-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1997
- Type
- Post office
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1896. Symmetrical 2-storey, 6-bay gabled Baroque style post office with single storey, 2-bay gabled pavilion to outer right. Sandstone ashlar to principal elevations, bonded brick to rear. Raised base course; architraved string and cill courses; corniced eaves; splayed pediment above balustraded parapet. Fluted Ionic pilasters at ground; simple Doric pilasters at 1st floor. Architraved surrounds to windows (shouldered at 1st floor); projecting cills at ground; carved pediments with anthemion detail above 1st floor windows set in continuous foliate frieze; bi-partite windows with stone mullions.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door to centre at ground; plate glass fanlight set in architraved surround; flanked by part-fluted pilasters on raised plinth. Segmental-arched pediment over with inset foliate carving. Large single windows at ground in 2 bays to left and right of entrance; single door at ground in bay to outer left; fanlight set in architraved surround and flanked by part-fluted pilasters. Single window at 1st floor aligned above entrance; bipartite windows in bays to left and right; single windows in remaining bays. Pedimented scrolled gable centred above parapet, "AD 1896" embossed in frieze, armorial panel set in chamfered surround, flanked by Ionic pilasters, consoled keystone beneath with inset anthemion carving and urn-shaped finials.
PAVILION: single storey pavilion to outer right comprising 2 bipartite windows at ground; scrolled gable centred above; flanking urn-shape parapet finials; inset circular detailing; flanked by fluted pilasters; raised keystone beneath and round-arched pediment over with tympanum relief and ball-shaped finial.
Border-glazing at ground; 4-pane upper, plate-glass lower timber casements to main block at 1st floor and pavilion at side. Graded grey slate roof; corniced ridge and apex stacks, circular cans.
INTERIOR (not reviewed 2011, information from previous list description of 1996-7): part-glazed timber vestibule door; glazed counter within.
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