Episcopal Church Rectory, Argyll Street, Campbeltown

The Episcopal Church Rectory, on Argyll Street in Campbeltown, was designed by Henry Edward Clifford in 1885. It is a two-storey, three-bay asymmetrical building constructed in a Tudor Gothic style. The walls are primarily of stugged squared and snecked ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, though the north-west elevation is of stugged rubble and the south-east elevation is roughcast. A battered base course runs around the building, with a cill course at the first floor level, and an eaves cornice. Window arrises are chamfered, and the sills slope.

The south-west (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a pointed-arched entrance door at the centre, flanked by low buttresses and a hoodmould. Above the door is a double lancet window with cusped arch-heads. A gable breaks the eaves to the left, housing a two-storey, four-light canted window with mullioned and transomed windows, a corniced parapet, and a mullioned and transomed tripartite window in the gablehead. A mullioned and transomed tripartite window is located at ground and first floor levels of the bay to the right, with the first-floor window breaking the eaves.

The north-west elevation is a blank gable end with a circlet in the gablehead, and an irregularly fenestrated rear wing projects to the left. A modern extension projects from the north-east (rear) elevation at ground level.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows are found in all openings. The entrance door is a two-leaf vertically-boarded and grained timber door, with a panelled inner door and a glazed upper section topped by a stained-glass fanlight. The roof is covered with grey-green slate, featuring terracotta ridges and a piended dormer over the south side. Cast-iron gutters have a cavetto profile, with decorative brackets and hoppers. Battered apex stacks rise from the principal gables, constructed of ashlar on the north-west gable and cement rendering on the south-east gable, both topped with red, battered, and banded circular cans. A battered wallhead stack is present on the rear wing, capped with a circular can. Ashlar skew copes are present, except on the south-east gable where they have been removed.

Inside, most of the original ground floor fittings survive, including four-panel doors and shutters, plaster cornices, and decorative timber fireplaces carved by Canon Wakeham. A timber staircase features pyramidal newels and vertically-boarded infill. A double lancet stair window is fitted with stained glass.

The boundary wall consists of a stugged squared and snecked dwarf wall with an ashlar cope, from which the railings have been removed. Polished ashlar gatepiers have battered bases and octagonal pyramidal caps. A decorative wrought-iron gate completes the entrance.