Westbay Hotel, Corran Esplanade, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Hotel.
Westbay Hotel, Corran Esplanade, Oban
- WRENN ID
- watchful-banister-ochre
- 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
- Hotel
- OS grid reference
- NM 857 304
- Coordinates
- 56.41789, -5.4747
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Westbay Hotel, located on Corran Esplanade in Oban, was designed by Charles Wilson of Glasgow around 1860. This classical hotel features three bays and is two stories tall with an attic over a raised basement. The front elevation is made of ashlar stone, while the rear is constructed of coursed rubble and the north elevation is rendered.
On the west elevation, the principal floor includes a wide entrance door and windows with cills, all framed with architraves and cornices. The first-floor windows have margins that extend into brackets beneath the eaves cornice.
The east (rear) elevation has a flat-roofed addition at ground level and a glazed bridge leading to an annexe, which is centered on the principal floor. The west front has modern glazing, including a glazed entrance door. The principal and first floors of the rear elevation feature plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are piend-roofed slate-hung dormers on the east and west pitches, with the east side having bipartite dormers. Cast-iron downpipes are also present.
Local climate
Westbay Hotel, Corran Esplanade, 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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