Tourist Information Centre, Argyll Square, Oban

The Tourist Information Centre in Argyll Square, Oban, was designed by J Fraser Sim and built between 1893 and 1894. This Gothic-style building features a rectangular plan and includes a church hall designed by Alexander Shairp in 1892, located to the southwest. The structure has five bays and a tower at the eastern corner, along with a semi-octagonal stair tower at the northern corner. It is constructed from grey bull-faced, squared, and snecked rubble, accented with yellow ashlar dressings and details. The building has a battered base course, string courses at the ground and first-floor cill levels, an additional string course on the towers, and a cornice at the eaves. The western wall is rendered and includes buttresses.

On the eastern elevation facing Argyll Square, there is a slightly projecting triangular entrance porch with a crocket at the apex, featuring a pointed arch doorway of double order with a two-leaf timber door that has decorative ironmongery. Above the doorway is a hoodmould with floral stops. The eastern window consists of a triple lancet with trefoil tracery and hoodmoulds above, along with a miniature triple lancet in the gable. A carved Celtic cross is positioned at the apex, and there is a small blind-arcaded parapet with a monogram. An ashlar shaft with a pyramidal pinnacle is located at the northern corner of the gable.

The southern elevation facing Albany Street features a four-bay nave with double lancets separated by buttresses. The tower is at the eastern end, and there is a projecting transept gable at the western end that includes a geometric window supporting a circlet, with a hoodmould above and a miniature triple lancet above that. The hoodmoulds of the nave windows extend into the string course.

The tower is two-stage, with the lower stage featuring a plaque and a bipartite window set in a pointed arch recess with a hoodmould above. The upper stage includes lancets at the first-floor level and paired slit windows at the belfry, along with an eaves course.

The church hall, which has a rectangular plan, connects to the nave through a single-storey porch that has an arched doorway and a tripartite window beneath a pitched roof. The south gable wall features a triple lancet window with a hoodmould above the base course. The western elevation consists of five bays with lancets, and the roof is grey slated with terracotta ridges. The tower has a pyramidal grey-slated roof, and there are zinc ventilators at the hall ridge.

Inside, the building has been stripped of all fittings. The entrance steps and gatepiers at the eastern front feature a clover motif on the caps.