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Latitude: 56.412 / 56°24'43"N
Longitude: -5.4734 / 5°28'24"W
OS Eastings: 185824
OS Northings: 729829
OS Grid: NM858298
Mapcode National: GBR DCVR.ZNF
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.W3SB
Plus Code: 9C8PCG6G+QJ
Entry Name: Claredon Hotel, 1 Shore Street, Oban
Listing Name: 1 Shore Street, Claredon Hotel
Listing Date: 16 May 1995
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384339
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38859
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384339
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Hotel building
Later 19th century. 4-storey, 3-bay hotel in classical style with
Italianate detailing. Main block to street with wing projecting at
rear giving T-plan. Painted ashlar frontage with rendered side and rear elevations. Street elevation symmetrical with central doorway and flanking shop windows. Shop doorways at outer bays to left and right. Stallrisers with string course, frieze at 1st floors with cornice and band course over. String courses to 1st floor lintel and 2nd floor cills. Additional, intermediate string courses at each floor. Heavy cornice at 2nd floor lintel level with banded ovolo moulding and dentils, returned and stopped at corners. Strip pilasters framing elevations, extending from 1st floor cornice to parapet. Panelled pilasters flanking doorways, decorative scrolled brackets at frieze with small pediments at cornice, balustrade over central doorway terminated with urns. Bipartite windows at all levels except single windows at 3rd floor outer bays. Low parapet at 3rd floor level incorporating gabled dormers.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows, 2-leaf panelled timber storm doors to doorways with rectangular fanlights above, infilled to outer bays. Grey slate pitched roof to front block and wing, slated over skews.
The removal of the gablehead chimney stacks is regrettable. This building terminated the now demolished early 19th century terrace on Shore Street and the principal elevation is prominent from George Street.
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