Manderley, Benvoulin Road, Oban

Manderley, located on Benvoulin Road in Oban, is a later 19th-century Italianate villa featuring two storeys over a raised basement and a square plan with a projecting porch on the south side. The exterior is constructed of bull-faced grey granite walls, with coursed granite rubble on the east elevation and polished red sandstone ashlar dressings. A cill course runs along the principal floor, including the porch, and there is a string course below the eaves that appears to overstep stone corbels of timber eaves brackets. The window surrounds are chamfered and stop at the cills, with round-arched windows on the first floor that break the eaves, supported by bracketed round-arched canopies.

On the south (entrance) elevation, there are two bays, with the original basement concealed by a modern addition in the recess area. A single-storey porch is located to the right of the centre on the principal floor, flanked by bipartite windows. The west elevation is near-symmetrical with three bays, featuring a basement with a bipartite window in the first bay and a door between the second and third bays. The principal floor has tripartite windows in the first and third bays.

The east elevation consists of three bays, with a central stair window that breaks the lower string course. On the first floor, there is no window in the first bay, while a large round-arched stair window is located in the centre, also breaking the eaves. The north elevation has two bays, with a basement window in the first bay and a principal floor window in the second bay.

The villa features plate glass timber sash and case windows at the basement and principal floor of the west elevation, along with a boarded entrance door. The roofs of the main block and porch have a shallow pitch and overhanging eaves. The porch roof ridge has a short length of brattishing, and there is a lamp bracket above the door. Cast-iron balconies with brackets adorn the tripartite windows of the west elevation, and cast-iron downpipes with profiled and plain guttering are present at the eaves. The south elevation has a three-flue wallhead stack at its centre, while the north elevation features a six-flue wallhead stack, both of which are coped and topped with octagonal cans.

The interior is believed to be of interest, but it has not been seen since 1994.