34 Mount Pleasant Road, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 November 1997.
34 Mount Pleasant Road, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- wild-tallow-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1997
- OS grid reference
- NS 089 643
- Coordinates
- 55.83441, -5.05229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
32 Mount Pleasant Road in Rothesay, Bute, is a mid-19th century set of three single-storey houses with a basement and attic, forming a near-symmetrical six-bay terrace. The houses are constructed of whitewashed coursed rubble sandstone with raised, painted dressings. Notable architectural features include a band course at the principal floor, a raised lintel course beneath the corniced eaves, and a blocking course. The buildings have pilastered quoins, raised margins, and balustraded details beneath the projecting cills, along with stylised pediments above the pilastered doorpieces. The windows at the basement are segmental-arched with projecting cills.
The entrance elevation features steps that oversail the basement leading to a paired entrance offset to the right of centre for Nos 30 and 32. This entrance has timber panelled doors and 6-light fanlights, surrounded by a doorpiece with flanking pilasters, dentil detailing beneath a plain frieze, a cornice, and stylised pediments. There are single windows at the basement and ground floors in the flanking bays, with 3-light canted dormers above. Additionally, there are steps leading to a timber panelled door at ground level in the penultimate bay to the outer left for No 34, which also features a 6-light fanlight and a similar doorpiece. The outer left bay has single windows at the basement and ground floors, with a 3-light canted dormer above.
The houses have replacement glazing and rooflights, with a graded grey slate roof featuring raised stone skews, stop-chamfered ridge and apex stacks, and missing octagonal flues to the south. The interiors were not seen in 1996.
The boundary wall consists of a low coped rendered wall along Mount Pleasant Road, with square-plan gatepiers flanking the pedestrian entrances, topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
34 Mount Pleasant Road, 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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