The Argyllshire Gathering Halls, Breadalbane Street, Oban

Later to late 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, 5-bay, classically-detailed ballroom and restaurant with lower single storey with attic, 8-bay range adjoined to left. Principal block: coursed and stugged cream sandstone (rendered in part); ashlar dressings; rubble sides Base and eaves course; modillioned eaves; corniced parapet; pilastered bays. Lower range: lined render. Stepped base course; eaves course; tall, coped parapet; pilastered bays.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: principal block to right with consoled, pedimented doorpiece off-set to right of centre; deep-set timber panelled door within. Later shallow-pedimented opening at ground off-set to left of centre with 2-leaf boarded timber door. Blind in remaining bays at ground. 2 piended dormers set behind parapet off-set to left of centre. Later flat-roofed entrance corridor adjoined to outer right. Lower block: 3-bay gable end to outer left with steps to deep-set, 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground to right; bipartite window at ground to left; bipartite window centred in surmounting gablehead. 5-bay range to right with boarded timber door centred at ground; blind in remaining bays to left and right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

Part-louvred dormer windows to ballroom; rooflights to side; plate glass timber sash and case windows to later block (opaque in part). Grey slate roofs throughout (piended roof to ballroom).

INTERIOR: rectangular-plan ballroom (slightly bowed to W) with boarded timber floor; boarded timber dado panelling; timber panelled doors. Moduled cornice; open boarded timber pitched roof with hammerbeam supports on moulded springers; various coats-of-arms set between. Tiered timber seating abutting walls. Timber balcony projecting at upper level in S wall with ball-finialled newels and cross-braced front; arched opening centred behind. Further room adjoined to S with square-plan timber columned arcade dividing room in 2. Timber panelled dado throughout with half-timbering above. Bar to W; boarded timber dance floor to E. Combed ceilings; timber panelled doors. Timber panelled vestibule to S. Restaurant to N (linked to ballroom) with boarded timber dado panelling; continuous upper balcony; plain cornices. Public bar in basement below.