History in Structure

89 Millknowe Road, Campbeltown

A Category C Listed Building in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4302 / 55°25'48"N

Longitude: -5.612 / 5°36'43"W

OS Eastings: 171567

OS Northings: 621084

OS Grid: NR715210

Mapcode National: IRL Y3.588X

Mapcode Global: GBR DGJC.85R

Plus Code: 9C7PC9JQ+35

Entry Name: 89 Millknowe Road, Campbeltown

Listing Name: 83-103 (Odd Nos) Millknowe Road with Boundary Wall, Retaining Wall, and Steps

Listing Date: 28 August 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389494

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43125

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389494

Location: Campbeltown

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Campbeltown

Electoral Ward: South Kintyre

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Terrace house

Find accommodation in
Campbeltown

Description

Robert Weir & Son 1878. 29-bay symmetrical terrace of artisan's houses, grouped 4-8-5-8-4. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay centre section with flanking 2-storey ranges. Roughcast walls with droved ashlar dressings, raised margins to openings with projecting cills. Cill course at 1st floor.

E (MILLKNOWE ROAD) ELEVATION: Centre 5-bay group with entrance door at centre, blank at 1st floor, gabled dormers breaking eaves at centre and outer bays, cylindrical finials at apexes and skewputts, bipartite window to centre dormer. 8-bay sections flanking centre with entrance doors at 6th, 11th, 19th and 24th bays, doors at 11th and 19th bays with closely flanking windows. Segmentally-arched pends in 9th and

21st bays. 4-bay sections to outer left and right with entrance door at ground floor between inner bays.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated, but with windows of varying heights and widths, and stair windows at intermediate levels. Gabled dormers breaking eaves at centre.

8-pane timber sash and case windows to front and rear, vertically- boarded timber entrance doors with rectangular plate glass fanlights above, modern door at 24th bay. Grey slate roofs, rendered and coped apex stacks set to E of ridges with circular cans, ashlar skews, removed at N gable. Cast-iron downpipes and gutters, profiled at principal front.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble wall to street and ends of rear courtyard. Random rubble retaining wall to rear of courtyard, pair of concrete steps with brick bases and steel handrails to drying greens above.

Statement of Interest

The Argyllshire Herald and Campbeltown Courier disagree as to whether it was Robert or James Weir who designed this terrace. It is likely that both were involved through the connection of Robert Weir & Son with the Campbeltown Building Company which was set up in 1877 to relieve a housing shortage in the town. This is an interesting row of workers? housing with nearly all traditional details surviving intact.

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.