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Latitude: 56.4116 / 56°24'41"N
Longitude: -5.4729 / 5°28'22"W
OS Eastings: 185852
OS Northings: 729783
OS Grid: NM858297
Mapcode National: GBR DCVR.ZXB
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.X30N
Plus Code: 9C8PCG6G+JR
Entry Name: Masonic Hall, 7, 8, 9 Albany Street, Oban
Listing Name: 7 to 9 (Inclusive Nos) Albany Street, Masonic Hall
Listing Date: 16 May 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384259
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38797
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Oban, 7, 8, 9 Albany Street, Masonic Hall
ID on this website: 200384259
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Masonic temple
John C Hay of Edinburgh, 1889. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical terraced building with shops at ground floor. Bull-faced, squared and snecked granite with polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Stone shopfronts with plain stall-risers, pilasters framing elevation at ground floor, narrow square columns flanking central recessed shop doorways and matching pilasters flanking door to upper floor at centre bay, all with capitals and bases. Cornice above shopfronts, advanced at centre, acting as cornice to central door, architraved, round-arched 2-pane fanlight over bracketted lintel, decorative scrolled brackets supporting balustrade above with fluted dies and ball finials. Cill course at 1st floor, advanced at cills with brackets below in outer bays. Moulded architrave and carved keystone to centre window, each with semicircular pediment carved with Masonic symbol semicircular panel to lintels. Band course at eaves, carved decorative panels at each bay. Modern, cement-rendered 2-storey addition to rear.
Plate glass windows to shopfronts, panelled ingoes to doors, timber door to right with panel and glazed upper. Plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper floor. 6-panel door to centre.
Pendant lamp on bracket at central door, profiled gutter at eaves, mutual multi-flue stack shared with tenement to NW.
Dean of Guild Court plans record "For the Trustees of Oban Lodge Commercial No.180 of Freemasons, John C Hay, architect, Edinburgh 1889" and another application for alterations in 1931.
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