Drumore House, Tarbet Road, Campbeltown

Drumore House is a house built around 1820, with alterations dating to around 1875. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay near-symmetrical house of rectangular plan, featuring a stair tower and extensions projecting to the rear. The front and side elevations are cement-rendered and lined, with polished and painted ashlar dressings and details, while the rear is roughcast with droved ashlar dressings. A base course and band course at the eaves are present, along with margins framing the elevations. Windows are architraved on the south (principal) and east elevations and margined elsewhere, all with projecting cills.

The south front has a central ground-floor entrance with a projecting stone porch, featuring stone steps and cubic bases to columns with decorated lower shafts and capitals supporting an entablature and blocking course. Flanking pilasters with matching decoration are present alongside the entrance door, which itself is a 9-panel door with a plate glass fanlight above. Stone balls on cubic bases flank the porch. Bipartite windows are found at ground and first floor in the left-hand bay. Ground floor windows are corniced.

The east elevation is symmetrical with two bays and corniced ground floor windows. The west elevation also has two bays with smaller windows, and includes a modern entrance porch at ground floor level on the left. The north (rear) elevation includes a stair tower, with a tall round-arched stair window (now partially filled in) projecting centrally. A single-bay infill features modern entrance steps, along with a two-bay, two-storey infill in the re-entrant angles to the left and right.

Most windows are plate glass timber sash and case. Twelve-pane windows remain at ground floor level to the rear, and the stair window was formerly a multi-pane sash and case with border glazing. The grey slate piended roof extends over the stair tower and later additions. Profiled cast-iron gutters with palmettes adorn the side and rear elevations, with cast iron gutters and downpipes elsewhere. Two ridge stacks flank the center of the principal front – the west stack is roughcast and coped with octagonal cans, and the east stack has an ashlar base and five corniced flue shafts.

Internally, the vestibule floor is tiled, and a panelled screen with etched glass uppers is present. Most original internal fittings survive at ground floor level, including panelled shutters and doors, chimneypieces, and plasterwork, with particularly ornate detailing in the hall.

The boundary walls are built of random rubble and incorporate a semicircular concrete cope to the east and a ceramic cope to the southwest. Painted gate piers consist of four clustered columns corniced with domed caps. Cast and wrought-iron two-leaf gates complete the enclosure.