Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

KILCHATTAN BAY, ST BLANE'S HOTEL INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLLB45009

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
20/02/1998
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Parish
Kingarth
NGR
NS 10334 54866
Coordinates
210334, 654866

Description

Dated 1881. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay hotel with French-pavilion roofed tower slightly advanced at centre; additions at rear. Coursed whitewashed sandstone; raised dressings. Raised base course; corniced windows at ground floor; architraved string course beneath 2nd floor; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Prominent quoins; long and short surrounds to predominantly segmental-arched openings; bipartite windows at centre; tripartite windows to outer left and right; painted sandstone mullions; chamfered cills.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to replacement door centred at ground; advanced porch comprising flanking pilasters, square-plan columns to front, plain frieze, cornice. Shouldered-arched windows aligned at 1st floor; round-arched windows at 2nd floor; architraved surround to clock centred beneath swept bracketed eaves. 3-light canted window at ground in bay to outer left; tripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; tripartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors in remaining bays to outer left and right (shouldered-arched at 2nd floor).

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; fish-scale detailing to central French-pavilion roof (dated 1881); replacement rainwater goods. Corniced wallhead stacks to SE and NW; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: few original fittings; decorative cornice and ceiling rose in front reception room.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped whitewashed rubble wall to street.

Statement of Special Interest

St Blane's remains a prominent sea-front structure with some unusual detailing - in particular, the dated French-pavilion roof, heavy quoins, combination of shouldered- and round-arched openings and timber bracketed eaves. A photograph in MacCallum shows the hotel prior to it being whitewashed.

References

Bibliography

Does not appear on Ordnance Survey map, 1863; appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1897; F Walker & F Sinclair NORTH CLYDE ESTUARY: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p169; J MacCallum "WISH YOU WERE HERE": A PICTURE POSTCARD VIEW OF EDWARDIAN BUTE p32-33.

About Listed Buildings

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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)

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