Dungallan House Hotel, Gallanach Road, Oban

Dungallan House Hotel is a late 19th century villa designed in French chateau style, located on Gallanach Road in Oban. The building comprises a 2-storey L-plan main block with a 4-storey tower positioned in the re-entrant angle, supplemented by a lower single storey and attic wing to the south-east, creating an approximate U-plan. Further single storey and attic wings join the south-east elevation of the main block in a T-plan arrangement.

The exterior walls are constructed of stugged, squared and snecked sandstone ashlar, which has been cleaned. The stonework is droved into chamfered surrounds to openings, with a string course at the low ground floor window cill level.

The north-east principal elevation comprises 4 bays featuring a central tower flanked by gables. The tower is forward of and partly obscures the gable to the right, whilst the left gable is advanced forward and engaged with the north corner of the tower. The first bay contains a tripartite window at ground floor and a window in the gablehead. The tower, which dominates the second bay, rises in 4 stages with curved corners corbelled out to square below the 4th stage, with windows at ground, 2nd and 3rd floors and a string course at 3rd floor cill level. The third bay features a stone entrance porch positioned in the re-entrant angle with a parapet containing a crest and roll-moulded door surround, with a 1st floor window in the gable behind. The fourth bay contains a narrow window at ground floor close to a curved corner to the right, corbelled below the eaves.

The north-west elevation displays 3 bays with a gable to the right in bays 2 and 3. The first bay has a bipartite window at ground floor. The second and third bays feature a canted and parapetted window centring the gable at ground floor, with a deeply set low window above flanked by 1st floor windows and an armorial panel in the gablehead above.

The south-west elevation contains 3 widely spaced bays with a gable to the left in bay 1. This features a curved corner corbelled out at the eaves, with the ground floor window offset to the left and a 1st floor window centring the gable. Bay 2 has a projecting square bipartite bay window with a blocking course over and a 1st floor window centred above. Bay 3 contains a small square window offset to the left of a 1st floor window above. A full-width timber loggia runs along the ground floor with stop-chamfered columns and a partially glazed roof, with a boarded porch containing windows and a door to the left.

The north-east wing is single storey with a piend roof, featuring a stone gabled dormer breaking the eaves to the centre of the north-east elevation and 2 windows to the right, one narrow. The east wing is single storey and attic, projecting from a gable to the left at the south-east elevation. The south wing is single storey and attic with 3 bays, featuring stone gabled dormers breaking the eaves and bipartite windows at ground floor.

The joinery comprises 4-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass fitted to the bipartite, tripartite and narrow openings. The ground floor windows of the north-east wing have lying panes. The entrance features a chevron-panelled front door. Grey slate roofs with overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards cover the building. A tripartite box dormer with 9-pane timber windows sits on the south-west pitch. Timber eaves with paired brackets ornament the tower. A decorative lamp bracket is positioned over the entrance door. Cast-iron downpipes and gutters complete the external drainage. Corniced ashlar apex stacks rise from the gables of the main block, with a multi-flue corniced stack to the south wing and a 2-flue wallhead stack to the tower.

The interior includes a geometric tiled vestibule, a Gothic style painted stone chimneypiece in the hall, decorative plaster cornices, a timber stair balustrade, and leaded, mottled glass to the hall and stair windows.

A substantial garden terrace wall of stone-coped rubble runs to the west of the building, incorporating a continuous garden seat.