Listed Building
The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.
Address/Name of Site
LOW ASKOMIL, SPRINGBANK HOUSE, WITH RETAINING AND BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND SUMMERHOUSELB22934
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Date Added
- 28/08/1980
- Local Authority
- Argyll And Bute
- Planning Authority
- Argyll And Bute
- Burgh
- Campbeltown
- NGR
- NR 72574 20834
- Coordinates
- 172574, 620834
Description
Circa 1835. 2-storey over raised basement, 3-bay rectangular plan house with 2-storey wing projecting to rear. Principal elevation roughcast at basement with stugged ashlar upper floors, droved and polished ashlar dressings. Roughcast side and rear elevations. Lintel course above basement and to 2nd floor, cornice at eaves. Ashlar margins and projecting cills. Ashlar stair oversailing basement recess wrought-iron handrail accessing entrance door at centre of principal floor. Stone doorpiece comprising pilasters, entablature and block pediment above. 6-panel entrance door with 6-pane fanlight above.
Timber sash and case windows, 16-pane at basement (plate glass lower sash at left), plate glass to principal floor of principal elevation with 12-pane at 1st floor and gable ends. 6-panel inner entrance door with glazed panels and 6-pane sidelights. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Roughcast, coped, apex stacks with ashlar ends and variety of cans at principal gables, tall roughcast and coped apex stack to wing.
INTERIOR: most internal fittings surviving at principal floor including panelled shutters, 6-panel doors, plaster cornices and chimneypieces.
SUMMERHOUSE: vertically-boarded, with glazed upper. Glazed door at centre, tiled piended roof with cast-iron gutters
BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble walls to Low Askomil, E and N. Harled retaining wall to rear of house and drive. Square stugged ashlar gatepiers with droved ashlar cornice and domed caps.
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About Listed Buildings
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