5, 7, 9, 11 Stevenson Street, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.

5, 7, 9, 11 Stevenson Street, Oban

WRENN ID
solemn-cornice-bramble
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
Tenement
Address
5, 7, 9, 11 Stevenson Street, Oban, PA34 5NA
OS grid reference
NM 859 299
Coordinates
56.41317, -5.47162
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5, 7, 9, and 11 Stevenson Street is a mid 19th century, four-storey, six-bay plain classical tenement with a rectangular plan. The street elevation is symmetrical and constructed of sandstone ashlar, featuring shopfronts. The east end and rear elevations are made of coursed rubble with sandstone dressings. Notable architectural details include a moulded base course, a cornice above the shopfronts, and a string course at the second-floor cill level. The eaves are finished with a cornice that is interrupted around a downpipe at the west end. The shopfront door and window openings have roll moulded surrounds, while the first-floor window openings are corniced with aprons and have moulded cills over spandrel panels. The second-floor windows are architraved and corniced, and the third-floor windows are architraved with bracketed cills.

The rear (north) elevation features a symmetrical seven-bay design, but a large, flat-roofed modern extension obscures the first and second floors. At the center, there is a broad chimneyhead gabled bay and a semicircular brick stair tower with a conical roof, flanked by narrow windows on each floor. Surviving plate glass timber sash and case windows can be found at the first-floor east flat and the third-floor west flat. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a shallow pitch. There are multiple-flued stacks at the east and rear gables, as well as at the center of the ridge. Additionally, there is a 15-flue ashlar stack at the west end, which is situated over a shared structural wall with the neighboring building at number 3.

Local climate

5, 7, 9, 11 Stevenson 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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