19 John Street, Campbeltown

19 John Street, Campbeltown

A planned development of Scots Baronial tenements designed by Henry Edward Clifford in 1939, comprising multiple blocks arranged symmetrically to the streets they face. The scheme includes 19 John Street, 21-33 John Street, 1-5 Princes Street, 7-15 Princes Street, 17-21 Princes Street with 24 and 26 High Street, 3 Queen Street with 18, 20, 28 and 30 Princes Street, and 20 and 22 High Street.

The buildings are constructed of stugged squared and snecked sandstone with a battered base course rising to cill height, above which the walls are harled. Some elevations feature a strip of pebble-dash block-finish at ground floor windows and to dormers. Principal elevations have a moulded eaves course; sides and rear elevations have a square profile. Windows have margins and projecting concrete cills.

19 John Street is a 3-storey block with a symmetrical 6-bay south elevation. Flanking bows occupy the outer three bays on each side of the centre two bays. Ground and first floor windows are 3-light; second floor windows are tripartite in the bows and bipartite in the outer bays.

21-33 John Street is a 14-bay south elevation combining a 2-storey centre block with attic, flanked by advanced gabled bays and further 4-bay wings. The centre block has two windows at ground floor level and tripartite windows at first floor in the flanking bays, with gabled dormers breaking the eaves at second floor. The advanced gabled bays have two closely spaced ground floor windows, tripartite windows at first floor and bipartite windows at second floor. The 4-bay wings feature advanced and gabled outer bays with tripartite windows at ground and first floors; the 3-bay links between have gabled dormers breaking the eaves at the centre bay with catslide dormers flanking.

1-5 Princes Street occupies a corner site. The principal component is a 2-storey block with attic, with 4-bay elevations to both John Street and Princes Street symmetrical to the corner, plus an asymmetrical 2-storey 4-bay wing extending north along Princes Street. A gabled corner bay features two ground floor windows and bipartite windows at first and second floors; the second floor window is corniced with a panelled apron, and a datestone is set in the gablehead. The flanking 2-bay elevations have gabled dormers breaking the eaves at second floor. Gabled wings flank with bipartite ground floor windows and tripartite windows at first and second floors. A 3-bay wing projects to the right along Princes Street, with a gabled outer wing containing a tripartite ground floor window and bipartite second floor window.

7-15 Princes Street comprises a 14-bay east elevation. A 6-bay 3-storey centre block matches 19 John Street, flanked by 2-storey 4-bay wings. Gabled outer bays at left and right have tripartite ground floor windows and bipartite second floor windows.

17-21 Princes Street and 24 and 26 High Street are a mirror image of 1-5 Princes Street, with an additional wing to High Street matching that on Princes Street.

3 Queen Street, 18 and 20 Princes Street, and 28 and 30 High Street mirror 17-21 Princes Street.

20 and 22 High Street form a 2-storey, 3-bay north elevation. An advanced and crowstepped gable to the left has tripartite windows at ground and first floors. Dormer windows break the eaves, with a central dormer featuring a gablehead.

Rear elevations have harled walls above a brick base course, regularly fenestrated with openings of various sizes. Modern tilting plate glass timber windows are installed, though some original timber doors survive: 3-panel flush-beaded entrance doors with 9-pane uppers and vertically-boarded timber doors to stores. The roof is grey slate piended with cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Dormers have pedimented heads with thistle finials. Harled stacks feature deep battered copes with tall black battered circular cans. Harled crowsteps mark the gables, with blind concrete-margined slit windows in gableheads.

Boundary walls are random rubble with a battered dwarf profile, coped with rubble saddleback and raised copestones giving a crenellated effect. Tapered drum gatepiers are coped with domed caps.