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16-20 Main Street, Campbeltown

A Category B Listed Building in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4245 / 55°25'28"N

Longitude: -5.6052 / 5°36'18"W

OS Eastings: 171968

OS Northings: 620422

OS Grid: NR719204

Mapcode National: IRL Y3.7C2D

Mapcode Global: GBR DGJC.RBL

Plus Code: 9C7PC9FV+QW

Entry Name: 16-20 Main Street, Campbeltown

Listing Name: 16-20 ( Even Nos) Main Street and 1-3 (Odd Nos) Bolgam Street

Listing Date: 28 August 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358611

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22916

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200358611

Location: Campbeltown

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Campbeltown

Electoral Ward: South Kintyre

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Late 18th century. 3-storey and attic, 6-bay tenement on corner site with 3-bay, 3-storey wing projecting to rear along Bolgam Street. Smooth cement-rendered, lined and painted elevation to SE (Main Street), roughcast upper floors at NE (Bolgam Street) elevations.

SE (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: shopfront at ground floor, stone stall risers and mullions, shop doors in 2nd bay with window to left, shop door between 4th and 5th bays with flanking windows. Symmetrical upper floors comprising regular fenestration (grouped 2-2-2) and eaves course.

NE (BOLGAM STREET) ELEVATION: gable end with windows at each floor to outer right including square shop window at ground. 3-bay wing to right with entrance doors closely spaced at 1st bay, wide openings at 2nd and 3rd bays.

Plate glass fixed-light shop windows at ground floor, plate glass timber sash and case windows at 1st and 2nd floors. 2-leaf, 4-panel timber doors with rectangular plate glass fanlight above to Bolgam Street. Grey slate roof, 3 later piend-roofed, slate-hung timber canted dormers to Main Street pitch with plate glass timber sash and case windows. Cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast apex stack at NE gable, brick apex stack at NW gable.

Statement of Interest

A fine piece of burgh architecture and traditional tenement design in an important site, dating from the early 19th century building period in Campbeltown.

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