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30-32 Union Street, Campbeltown

A Category B Listed Building in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4248 / 55°25'29"N

Longitude: -5.6058 / 5°36'21"W

OS Eastings: 171927

OS Northings: 620455

OS Grid: NR719204

Mapcode National: IRL Y3.6CX9

Mapcode Global: GBR DGJC.R0L

Plus Code: 9C7PC9FV+WM

Entry Name: 30-32 Union Street, Campbeltown

Listing Name: 30-32 (Even Nos) Union Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389515

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43137

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Campbeltown, 30 - 32 Union Street

ID on this website: 200389515

Location: Campbeltown

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Campbeltown

Electoral Ward: South Kintyre

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Tenement

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Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay tenement on terraced site.

Cement-rendered and lined elevation, roughcast rear elevation with ashlar cills. Eaves cornice, projecting cills at windows.

W (UNION STREET) ELEVATION: shopfront at ground floor framed by pink granite pilasters with capitals and grey granite bases. Entrance door, with 3-pane fanlight above, to common stair at outer left. Panelled entrance door to shop at right, mostly glazed with plate glass fanlight above. Flanking windows over grey granite stall risers, curved at ends with applied brass lettering. Timber fascia with carved lettering and numbers, cornice above terminated at ends with panelled brackets surmounted by semicircular open pediments above.

REAR ELEVATION: roughcast, with apsidal stair tower.

Modern glazing at upper floors to front and rear, grey slate roof, piend-roofed slate-hung canted timber dormers. Panelled shop door with glazed upper and diagonal brass handle. Cast-iron profiled gutter with decorative hopper at downpipe to left, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Roughcast, coped multi-flue stack at N gable with circular cans.

INTERIOR: panelled shop counter.

Statement of Interest

This building is listed primarily for its high quality shopfront. Although downgrading of the original sash and case windows mars the traditional character of the upper floors, the tenement as a whole continues to make a valuable contribution to the townscape.

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