15 George Street, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Shop. 1 related planning application.

15 George Street, Oban

WRENN ID
dusted-merlon-tarn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 May 1995
Type
Shop
Address
15 George Street, Oban, PA34 5RU
OS grid reference
NM 859 299
Coordinates
56.41312, -5.47227
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

15 George Street in Oban is a single-storey building designed by Alexander Shairp in 1884, featuring arcaded shop units with a polygonal plan that adjoins the north wall of the Caledonian Hotel. The outer elevation has chamfered bays and is constructed of painted ashlar. It includes stall risers with projecting pedestals and engaged polished granite columns topped with Corinthian capitals and bases, which frame stilted segmental-arched window and door openings. There is a string course, a deep frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a blocking course above. The flat roof is enclosed by decorative cast-iron brattishing on the blocking course.

Local climate

15 George Street, Oban sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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