7, 8, 9 Argyll Square, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

7, 8, 9 Argyll Square, Oban

WRENN ID
iron-bracket-crimson
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
7, 8, 9 Argyll Square, Oban, PA34 4AZ
OS grid reference
NM 859 298
Coordinates
56.41199, -5.47143
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7, 8, 9 Argyll Square is a mid-19th century three-storey and attic, three-bay terraced tenement. It features a weathered ashlar street frontage and a random rubble rear elevation. The ground floor has modern shopfronts with a cornice above, and there is a cornice at the eaves as well. The first-floor windows have stop-chamfered architraves and aprons, while the second-floor windows have cills. There is a modern addition to the ground floor at the rear.

The building has four-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof, which includes modern slate-hung box dormers on both the front and rear pitches.

Local climate

7, 8, 9 Argyll Square, 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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