Harbour Walls, 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. Harbour wall.
Harbour Walls, George Street, Oban
- WRENN ID
- moated-rafter-falcon
- 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
- Harbour wall
- Address
- Harbour Walls, George Street, Oban, PA34 5SB
- OS grid reference
- NM 858 299
- Coordinates
- 56.4135, -5.47259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Harbour Walls on George Street in Oban were built around 1880. This structure extends north to south along the west side of George Street and Queens Park Place. At road level, there is a parapet that is made of ashlar stone on Queen's Park Place and concrete on George Street. The parapet features a crenellated design with saddleback copes and projecting seat recesses, and there is a ramp leading down to the harbour floor at the northern end. The corners of the wall are marked by octagonal, ashlar, capped posts, which also flank the bridge at Queen's Park Place. Below the parapet, the wall is constructed of bull-faced red sandstone to the south and random rubble to the north.
Local climate
Harbour Walls, 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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