Latitude: 56.4161 / 56°24'57"N
Longitude: -5.4738 / 5°28'25"W
OS Eastings: 185822
OS Northings: 730290
OS Grid: NM858302
Mapcode National: GBR DCVR.RGJ
Mapcode Global: WH0GC.WZLQ
Plus Code: 9C8PCG8G+CF
Entry Name: 26 Corran Esplanade, Alexandra Place, Oban
Listing Name: Corran Esplanade, Alexandra Place
Listing Date: 16 May 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384290
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38818
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384290
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Tenement
Mid 19th century. 4-storey, 6-bay tenement building (bays arranged 2-1-1-2) in plain classical style. Rectangular plan, near-symmetrical ashlar street elevation and rubble rear and side elevations, all painted. Small base course, string course at 2nd floor cill level, pendant bracketted eaves cornice. Pilasters framing facade, and single pilaster at centre, with capitals engaged at eaves cornice. All windows architraved, cornices at ground, 1st and 2nd floor. Matching architraves and cornices to doorways in bays 2 and 5. Plain margin to additional doorway to left of centre pilaster. Regular fenestration to rear elevation with stair windows at intermediate heights, margins and cills. Ground floor, 4-pane timber sash and case windows in bays 1
and 3. 1st floor, 4-pane timber sash and case windows in bays 1-3, plate glass timber sash and case windows in bays 4-6. 2nd floor, 4-pane timber sash and case windows. 3rd floor, 4-pane timber sash and case windows in bays 4-6. 8-pane timber sash and case windows surviving at rear elevation, 2nd and 3rd floors, with 4-pane timber sash and case stair windows. Grey slate roof, slated over skews. Ashlar 3-flue wallhead stacks, decorated with cornices and vertical channelling, 3-flue, corniced stack at centre of ridge. Substantial 3 and 4-flue wallhead stacks to rear elevation, and multi-flued gable stack. Timber panelled doors with 2-pane fanlights, in bays 2 and 5. Cast-iron
downpipe to left of bay 3 with decorative brackets and hopper.
A prominent building on the waterfront, with original details surviving.
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