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Latitude: 56.4137 / 56°24'49"N
Longitude: -5.4721 / 5°28'19"W
OS Eastings: 185915
OS Northings: 730013
OS Grid: NM859300
Mapcode National: GBR DCWR.S9B
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.X2F1
Plus Code: 9C8PCG7H+F5
Entry Name: King's Arms Flats, 28 George Street, Oban
Listing Name: 28 George Street, King's Arms Flats (Formerly Hotel)
Listing Date: 16 May 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384320
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38842
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Oban, 28 George Street, King's Arms Flats
ID on this website: 200384320
Location: Oban
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Oban
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Pub
Dated 1888. 4-storey and attic, 4-bay Scots Baronial hotel. Squared and snecked sandstone walls with ashlar dressings and details, rubble end gable (N) wall.
W (GEORGE STREET) ELEVATION: central round-arched and architraved entrance doorway, flanking panelled pilasters. Large basket-arched openings flanking doorway, projecting balcony with cornice and balustraded parapet above, spanning elevation, supported on large carved stone brackets. Corbel-table at 3rd floor in bays 1 and 2 with crowstepped gable above, finial at apex. Canted oriel window at 1st floor in bay 1, and tripartite oriel window with sidelights in bay 3, both corniced with lighter balustraded parapets. Doorway to balcony at centre. Bipartite window at 3rd floor bay 4, and round-arched window
in gablehead, both pedimented with corniced cills with carved decoration below.
REAR ELEVATION: 4-storey modern extension. Plate glass timber sash and case windows, glazed upper panels to balcony door with 2-pane fanlight above. Grey slated W roof pitch, modern lead dormers, artificial slates to rear pitch. Stone skew copes at N gable with scrolled skewputts, corniced ashlar multi-flue stack at apex. Cast-iron downpipes, hopper at eaves to right of bay 3.
Although the rear elevation has been altered beyond recognition, an effort has been made to preserve the character of the George Street elevation. A photograph of 1880 shows this as a 3-bay, 3-storey early 19th century hotel which may still exist within the present building structure.
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