Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

4-6 (even numbers) Argyll Square (Former County Buildings), ObanLB38809

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
16/05/1995
Last Date Amended
27/01/2021
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Burgh
Oban
NGR
NM 85929 29836
Coordinates
185929, 729836

Description

Mid-19th century, raised and redeveloped in the later and late 19th century. Three-storey and attic, five-bay (grouped 1-3-1), rectangular plan, simple classical style bank. Stugged, coursed sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to Argyll Square elevation. Rear elevation grey granite rubble with sandstone quoins to first floor, sandstone dressings to windows. Base course, moulded string course at second floor cill and lintel levels with frieze and cornice at eaves. Channelled quoins. Architraved windows, stone bracketted cills at first floor.

Southwest (Argyll Street) elevation: symmetrical, five-bay elevation with centre bay slightly advanced. Entrance door architraved with blind fanlight, frieze and cornice. Substantial gabled dormer to centre with fluted pilasters, string course and pediment above single window. Ground floor outer bays round-arched windows, with architrave and vermiculated keystones.

East (rear) elevation: asymmetrical, with projecting, bellcast, piend-roofed stair. Four-and eight-paned sash and case windows. Plate glass in bipartite window and window above. Windows all originally four-pane sash and case. Astragals removed from ground floor left window and lower sashes of first floor windows. Scroll-flanked and corniced chimney stacks at gable, corniced chimney stack at ridge and rear elevation eaves. Piended, grey slated roof and links to main chimney stacks. Piend-roofed, slate-hung dormers with 18-pane casement windows on front and rear pitches.

Statement of Special Interest

These were the County Buildings prior to being moved to what is now the Sheriff Court House in Albany Street. A change in the colour of the stonework on the Argyll Street elevation, ashlar quoins at first floor level and vertical joint in stonework in the rear elevation, suggests that the height of the building has been raised from second floor lintel level.

Statutory address revised in 2021. Previously listed as '4-6 (even nos) Argyll Square, Royal Bank of Scotland (former County Buildings)'.

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Photograph by George Washington Wilson, 1890.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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