20-24 Columshill Street, Rothesay is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 October 1980. Terraced houses. 2 related planning applications.
20-24 Columshill Street, Rothesay
- WRENN ID
- fossil-cornice-acorn
- Grade
- C
- 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
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 20-24 Columshill Street, Rothesay, PA20 0HX
- OS grid reference
- NS 085 645
- Coordinates
- 55.83579, -5.05879
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20-24 Columshill Street in Rothesay is a pair of nearly symmetrical, two-storey houses with an attic, built in the mid-19th century and rehabilitated in 1983. These three-bay, plain classical style flatted houses are part of a terrace, with a pend entrance to No 22 located centrally at the ground level. The exterior is made of random rubble sandstone with raised, painted margins, and features tooled rubble sandstone quoins and surrounds around the openings, along with projecting cills. The sides are also finished in random rubble.
On the east elevation facing Columshill Street, there are replacement small-paned doors at the ground level in the penultimate bays of the outer left (No 24) and right (No 20), with single windows flanking them. No 22 has a small-paned door centered at the ground level. The first floor is regularly fenestrated across all bays, with three-light slate-hung canted dormers on the outer left and right bays.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and features a raised skew to the south, a corniced rendered central ridge stack, and apex stacks to the north and south, along with various circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
20-24 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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