Kilchrenan Hotel, Corran Esplanade, Oban

The Kilchrenan Hotel, located on Corran Esplanade in Oban, is a later 19th-century, two-storey and attic, seven-bay picturesque gabled semi-detached double villa that has been converted into hotels. The building features squared and snecked bull-faced stone with sandstone ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises, along with ornate bargeboards.

The Kilchrenan Hotel has a four-bay elevation that includes a chateau-style tower. In the first bay, there is a slender return of the north gable with a window on each floor. The second bay features an entrance tower in a re-entrant angle, designed in three stages, with a moulded door surround and pilasters flanking decorative consoles that support a cornice, with a blocking course above that is stepped over heraldic carving. A bipartite window is located at the first floor, with a stone gabled dormer breaking the eaves above. There is a single window on the return to the left at ground level, a bipartite window at the first floor, and a dormer above. The third bay contains a two-storey canted window with string courses at the lintel levels and a parapet, with a gable breaking the eaves above and a window at the centre. In the fourth bay, there is a bipartite window at the ground floor with a stepped hoodmould featuring ornate label stops above, and two evenly spaced windows at the first floor, each with hoodmoulds over. The gable at the head of this bay has a window at the centre.

The Glencairn Hotel, which is part of the same building, has a five-bay elevation. The first bay features a bipartite window at the ground floor and a stone gabled dormer breaking the eaves at the second floor. The second bay has an entrance door with a door surround that matches the Kilchrenan Hotel, except for the ball finials above the cornice. The third bay features a two-storey canted bay window with a gable dormer above that matches the Kilchrenan Hotel.

The Kilchrenan Hotel has modern glazing, while the Glencairn Hotel features plate glass timber sash and case windows. Both hotels have grey slate roofs with decorative bargeboards, including dormers, and scalloped flashing around the top of the pyramidal tower roof. Brattishing is present at the canted bay window parapets and the top of the tower roof. The buildings also feature cast-iron downpipes and profiled guttering, with coped apex stacks on the north and south gable ends, a multi-flue mutual stack over the central wall, and round flared cans, some of which have been replaced by octagonal types.