33 High Street, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Former school, dwelling house.

33 High Street, Oban

WRENN ID
little-passage-lake
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
Former school, dwelling house
OS grid reference
NM 858 297
Coordinates
56.41094, -5.47241
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

33 High Street in Oban is a former school building from the later 19th century, now serving as a dwelling house. This two-storey structure is designed in the Scots Baronial style and is attached to tenements along High Street. It features crowstepped gables, with the main facade located at the northwest end and a single-storey wing extending to the southwest. The street-facing elevation is made of stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone, while the side and rear elevations are constructed from random rubble and cement-rendered materials, with stugged and arrised dressings.

On the northwest elevation facing High Street, there is a central entrance door flanked by narrow slit windows, a blank panel with a hoodmould, and a window above it. A circular stair tower is positioned at the corner to the right, featuring slit windows on both the ground and first floors.

The southwest elevation has three bays, with a window located in the third bay on the ground floor only. There is a gabled single-storey wing that projects from this elevation, which includes a central window on the northwest return and a single flue apex stack.

On the southeast rear elevation, there is a ground floor window to the right and a central window on the first floor. The building has 8-pane timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane windows for the slit windows. The first floor of the southwest and southeast elevations has modern glazing. The entrance features a two-leaf timber door decorated with Gothic panels and a two-light fanlight above. The roof is covered with grey slates arranged in diminishing courses, leading up to a conical tower spire with swept eaves.

Local climate

33 High 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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