70 Kirk Street, Campbeltown

This is an early 19th century house with alterations made in the mid 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay, nearly symmetrical, end-terrace classical house, with a round stair tower to the rear and projecting wings, creating an approximate U-shaped plan. The walls are generally roughcast, except for a random rubble rear wing to the northwest, with droved ashlar dressings. A base course and eaves course are present, along with raised margins and projecting cills to the windows.

The northeast elevation, facing Kirk Street, features tripartite windows at ground and first floor level in the left bay. The entrance door is flanked by pilasters and a projecting Tuscan columned doorpiece, topped with an entablature. A roughcast dwarf wall with an ashlar cope and a low railing flanks the entrance, terminating with curved ends.

The southeast elevation, along New Quay Street, shows a blank gabled return of the Kirk Street elevation. To the left is a three-bay, two-storey wing, with the first bay blank at ground floor level and narrow windows on the ground and first floors of the third bay.

The southwest, or rear, elevation has a central stair tower with a door on the ground floor offset to the right, and a stair window above offset to the left. Flanking wings are gabled; the left wing has an entrance door on the ground floor and a window above on the left wing.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 8-pane glazing to the front, and 4-pane sidelights to the tripartite windows. The New Quay Street elevation has lying-pane windows containing 12 and 4-pane configurations. A vertically-boarded timber door is on the northwest elevation of the southeast wing, paired with a 12-pane timber sash and case window to its right. The main entrance features 4-panel, 2-leaf storm doors with a 2-pane fanlight above, leading to a 2-panel inner door with two etched glass upper panels. The roof is grey slate, with a piended roof over the south rear wing. Lead and cast-iron gutters, with a profiled design at the eaves of the main front, and cast-iron downpipes are also present. Roughcast apex stacks with circular cans top the gable ends of the front, while a two-flue yellow brick apex stack is on the gable end of the northwest wing. The skew copes are rendered and painted.

The interior includes a tiled vestibule floor, a stone stair with cast-iron balusters and timber handrails, and many original fittings such as panelled doors, fireplaces, cornices, and shutters.

A random rubble garden wall runs along the boundary, with a vertically-boarded timber door to New Quay Street.