Former Clydesdale Bank, Argyll Square, Oban

The former Clydesdale Bank, located in Argyll Square, Oban, is a two-storey classical bank building designed by Baird and Thomson of Glasgow in 1915, with alterations made in 1936. The building has an irregular plan and features three main facades facing Shore Street, Argyll Square, and Station Road, with an angled rear elevation to the west. It is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, which is horizontally channelled at the ground floor, while the rear elevation is made of squared and snecked grey granite rubble and is blank. The east corner is chamfered and includes the main entrance door. The building has a base course, a band course at the ground floor cill and first floor, and a string course at the first floor cill, topped with a bracketed cornice and a parapet above. The ground floor windows feature channelled voussoirs and keystones at their centres, while the first floor windows are architraved and shouldered, with corniced cills.

On the Shore Street elevation, there are three bays, with an architraved doorway in the first bay. The Argyll Square elevation also has three bays, featuring architraved, arched, and shouldered windows, along with an armorial panel with a keystone and carved crest in the first bay at ground floor level. Bracketted pilaster strips extend from the first floor cill level to the wallhead stack above, flanked by narrow windows. There is a chamfered corner to the right, which is one bay wide, leading to a pilastered entrance doorway with scrolled brackets at the top, supporting an open segmental pediment adorned with a cartouche and shell motif.

The Station Road elevation consists of four bays, with narrower window openings in the fourth bay. The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows, with altered lower sashes at the ground floor. The roof is grey-slated and piended, with square cast-iron downpipes and shallow hoppers at the corners. There is a three-flue ashlar wallhead stack at the southeast elevation in bay one, and two-flue ashlar wallhead stacks at the north and south corners of the rear elevation, all topped with double-corniced copes.