Stables, Kilbowie House, Oban

The stables at Kilbowie House in Oban date from the later to late 19th century. This building features a symmetrical design with three bays and two storeys, along with a single-storey wing to the south and a long single-storey stable range to the north, creating a 13-bay frontage facing the road. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced, squared, and snecked red sandstone ashlar, with a rubble wall at the rear (east).

The north wing consists of six bays and includes a tall, broad pend in the fifth bay, featuring a pointed entrance arch with gable ends that are perpendicular to the main ridge. Inside, there is a plaster tunnel-vaulted ceiling, and the remaining bays have regular fenestration.

The house has stone dormer heads that break the eaves in the outer bays and a gabled timber porch at the centre, along with a modern porch extension at the rear.

The south wing has four bays with a doorway in the former outer right bay and a single bay addition at the south end. This wing also features regular fenestration, with four-pane timber sash and case windows in the house, south wing, and bays one and two of the north wing, while bays three, four, and six have six-pane timber sash and case windows. The south wing has vertically boarded timber doors, and the house has a two-leaf vertically boarded timber entrance door with glazed upper panels. There is a vertically boarded timber sliding door on the north gable.

The roofs of the house and wings are covered with grey slate, featuring over-sailing eaves, plain timber barge boards, and exposed rafter ends. The house porch is slated and supported by square timber columns, with a gable that has applied bosses. The south gable of the south wing has a piended roof. Each bay of the north wing has dormer slated and louvered timber ventilators, with a larger dormer between bays three and four that includes pigeon ports. There is a single ventilator on the west pitch of the south wing.

The gable over the arch features large barge boards with applied bosses and a quatrefoil decoration at the centre. The house has coped apex stacks with octagonal cans, and the building is fitted with cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Ornate finials adorn the dormers, ventilators, porch, and arch gable, which also includes a decorative cast-iron lamp bracket at the centre. A yard at the north end of the building is enclosed by a rubble wall, with ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps.