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5-7, Longrow, Campbeltown

A Category B Listed Building in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4246 / 55°25'28"N

Longitude: -5.6063 / 5°36'22"W

OS Eastings: 171897

OS Northings: 620441

OS Grid: NR718204

Mapcode National: IRL Y3.6CSB

Mapcode Global: GBR DGJC.QSS

Plus Code: 9C7PC9FV+VF

Entry Name: 5-7, Longrow, Campbeltown

Listing Name: 5-7 (Odd Nos) Longrow, Streetwise

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389459

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43101

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Campbeltown, 5-7, Longrow

ID on this website: 200389459

Location: Campbeltown

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Campbeltown

Electoral Ward: South Kintyre

Traditional County: Argyllshire

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Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay near-symmetrical tenement in terraced site. Droved ashlar shopfront with smooth lined render above, all painted, roughcast SW gable and rear elevation. Base course and stall risers to symmetrical shopfront with mullions flanking recessed door at centre, tenement entrance door to outer right. Cornice over shopfront fascia, raised margins and projecting cills at 1st and 2nd floors. Apsidal stair tower projecting at rear.

Plate glass shop windows, glazed door at centre with infilled fanlight above. Timber railed gate to shop, vertically-boarded timber gate with slatted upper and boarded infill above to pend at outer right. Modern 12-pane tilt-and-turn glazing to upper floors at front and rear elevations. Grey slate roof, 3 piend-roofed, slate-hung timber dormers, bipartite at centre, all with modern glazing, curved slate roof over stair tower. Cast-iron gutter and downpipe. Roughcast, coped, 3-flue apex stack to SE gable, skew copes removed.

Statement of Interest

Although removal of the original sash and case windows is unfortunate, this building continues to make an important contribution to the fabric of Longrow, particularly when view in conjunction with its neighbours.

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