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Latitude: 55.9828 / 55°58'57"N
Longitude: -4.9501 / 4°57'0"W
OS Eastings: 216047
OS Northings: 680570
OS Grid: NS160805
Mapcode National: GBR 04.W3XY
Mapcode Global: WH2M0.XWZF
Plus Code: 9C7QX2MX+4W
Entry Name: Benmore View, Shore Road, Sandbank
Listing Name: Benmore View, Shore Road, Sandbank
Listing Date: 29 February 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389341
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43020
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389341
Location: Dunoon and Kilmun
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Cowal
Parish: Dunoon And Kilmun
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: House
Dated 1902. Single storey and attic, rectangular plan, Arts and Crafts, former reading room with caretaker?s flat above, now 2 flats. Wet dash painted white with some cream sandstone dressings. Slate roof with wide oversailing roof supported on timber ogee brackets at corners.
SW (SHORE ROAD) ELEVATION: segmental-headed doorway with 2-leaf panelled storm doors, half-glazed vestibule door with part curved and glazed side panels.
Large canted transom and mullion window to right, small pane glazing with top hoppers. 4 small windows to left of doorway. 3 large flat roofed dormers.
NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with entrance to upper flat. Window at ground floor to left, 2 windows above.
NE (HOLY LOCH) ELEVATION: doorway to centre with panelled door, curved cornice with date below. Canted windows flanking, detailed as on SW elevation. 3 large flat roofed dormers.
SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 windows at ground, single window at 1st floor. Original timber windows to ground flat, including transom and mullion canted windows and sash and case windows. Mostly small pane glazing pattern. Original glass. Upper flat
mostly modern replacement windows, original windows to NE dormers. Grey slate roof, stone skews, corniced chimneys with clay pots, ogee cast-iron gutters.
INTERIOR: upper flat seen October 1995. Some original features including stair, doors and landing storage units. Lower flat not seen.
Built by local residents as a Working Man?s Reading Room on land owned by Robt S Allan of Hafton House. Converted into a dwelling house in 1935. Split into 2 flats in 1961.
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