The Mains, Hill Street, Oban

The Mains is a pair of late-19th century houses, probably built in the 1870s. The property comprises a three-storey, three bay house with a single-storey, three-bay cottage adjoining its east elevation at first floor level. An upper storey was added (likely early-20th century) and an extension added to the eastern gable of the cottage in the early-20th century. The property is set into the hillside and is located in a prominent position where Hill Street curves to meet Rockfield Road in Oban.

The principal (southwest) elevation has entrance openings in bays two and five, pedimented stone dormers breaking the roof eaves and timber bargeboards and eaves. The property is constructed in harl-pointed rubble with stugged and droved ashlar dressings. The two entrance doors are boarded, and the door to the three-storey section has a two-pane fanlight above.

The windows are predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames with projecting window cills throughout. There are two, small, square modern windows in the north (rear) elevation. Gabled dormerheads break the roof eaves to the front elevation. The roof is covered in grey slates with plain timber barge boards and roof eaves. There are cast iron gutters with downpipes between the bays. There are single apex chimneystacks to the east gables of the house and cottage and a shouldered, five-flue wallhead chimneystack in the centre of the north (rear) wall of the property. All have circular clay cans.

A rubble-coped and rubble-built boundary wall bounds the house to the south, following the curve of the road. There is an iron gate adjacent to the house and a single gatepier with a capstan finial to the right.