2 Argyle Place, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 November 1997. House.
2 Argyle Place, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-frieze-aspen
- 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
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 083 651
- Coordinates
- 55.84124, -5.06209
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Argyle Place is a house built in the earlier to mid-19th century, featuring a symmetrical design with two stories, an attic, and a basement. It has a plain classical style and forms a pair with the adjacent No 1. The exterior is made of painted coursed rubble sandstone with raised, painted margins. It includes a raised base course, a lintel course beneath the corniced eaves, and a blocking course. The building has pilastered quoins, a corniced doorpiece with consoled brackets, and projecting cills.
The entrance elevation features a decorative cast-iron balustraded stair leading to the central entrance, which has a replacement door and a geometric-patterned fanlight. The doorpiece is flanked by pilasters and has consoled brackets beneath the cornice. There are single windows at the ground level in the outer left and right bays, and the first floor is regularly fenestrated. A three-bay box dormer is centered above. The building has modern glazing throughout and a graded grey slate roof with raised skews. There is a corniced apex stack to the north and a corniced ridge stack to the south, along with various circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is bounded by a low coped random rubble wall along Argyle Place.
Local climate
2 Argyle Place, 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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