Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Description

Circa 1800, 3-bay, 2-storey near-symmetrical house, now a Hotel, with flanking single storey wings with attics breaking eaves. Coursed block and sneck WHINSTONE (LARGE BLOCKS) with ashlar sandstone dressings contrasting. Raised margins to openings, windows with projecting cills.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Projecting ashlar entrance porch at centre with basket-arched doorway, 3-pane fanlight and windows to sides, moulded parapet with shield. Regular fenestration. Advanced 2-bay wing to left (W), stone dormers, breaking eaves. Single bay wing to right (E) rectangular blind window at 1st floor with truncated wallhead stack breaking eaves above.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: infilled doorway at ground floor, centre bay. Canted 3-light window at ground floor bay 3. Flanking wings as above, except for stone dormer breaking eaves at 1st floor of E wing and further later 19th century, single bay, 2-storey addition to W wing with stone dormer breaking eaves and blank wall at ground floor.

E ELEVATION: single bay of main block to outer right, with doorway at ground floor. 3-bay elevation to wing, stone dormer breaking eaves at 1st floor bay 1, conservatory masking ground floor. Later, harled stair tower to centre with narrow windows at ground and 1st floor. Rectangular window below eaves at 1st floor, bay 3.

W ELEVATION: single bay to outer left with doorway at ground floor.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to all windows except 6-pane to rectangular 1st floor windows, 9-pane fixed light to porch windows and plate glass timber sash and case to canted window. Modern glazed doors to entrances, Grey slate roofs, piended to wings with piend-roofed dormerheads, M-roof to W wing. Skew copes to gables of main block. Large apex stacks to main block with dressings to corners and string course at base across gable, circular cans. Low coped 2-flue stack to W wing.

INTERIOR: Hall, coloured-tile floor, 3-centred arch to N, with fluted pilasters. Timber stair with cast-iron balusters and timber handrail. SE room, ground floor, timber chimney-piece, flanking 6-panel doors with fluted architraves. W wing, ground floor, cast-iron range with cast-iron bolection-moulded surround, plain early 20th century panelling. 6-panel door to upper floor with fielded panels. E wing, ground floor, plain black marble chimneypiece with fossils, dado rail. 6 panel-door and panelled shutters to windows with dado panelling below. Plain cornice and ceiling rose. Timber service stair with cast-iron balusters and timber handrail.

LAMP STANDARDS, ICE HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble boundary wall to road, copper lamps with fluted cast-iron standards flanking entrance door. Subterranean ice house built into slope of garden to N. Stone steps to rubble entrance wall, barrel vault within.

Statement of Special Interest

Originally built as a Dower House on the Oban Estate, the Manor House was used as the office for the National Bank of Scotland as early as 1826.

References

Bibliography

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.