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Latitude: 56.4106 / 56°24'38"N
Longitude: -5.4859 / 5°29'9"W
OS Eastings: 185046
OS Northings: 729718
OS Grid: NM850297
Mapcode National: GBR DCTS.5XY
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.P4WC
Plus Code: 9C8PCG67+7J
Entry Name: Public Conveniences, Dungallan Parks, Gallanach Road, Oban
Listing Name: Gallanach Road, Dungallan Parks Public Conveniences and Shelter Walls, Steps Balustrades and Lamp Standards
Listing Date: 16 May 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384311
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38836
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384311
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Public toilet
Dated 1933. Single storey, symmetrical viewing shelter with public toilets incorporated at ends of simple classical design. Splayed U-plan, concrete block construction. W elevation includes loggia of 5 bays, divided by 4 circular columns with capitals and bases, flanked by pilastered end bays with doorways to conveniences. Loggia lined with vertical timber boarding, timber bench along base. Parapet with cope around flat roof. Segmental pediment with datestone centring 3-bay
roadside (rear) elevation of centrepiece. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative brackets, and rectangular hoppers adjacent to doors.
INTERIOR: not seen (out of use) 1994.
Rubble retaining wall to road level surmounted by parapet alternated with balustrade of concrete square profiled balusters, steps at N and S ends. Symmetrical ramps from road to loggia level with balustrade, again with concrete square profiled balusters.
Cast-iron lamp standards with fluted stems to pavement.
Dean of Guild list of 1933 records a "public shelter and bathing boxes, for the Burgh of Oban", but plans are missing.
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