Gatepier And Railings, Lindhu House, 19 Stevenson Street, Oban

The gatepier and railings at Lindhu House, located at 19 Stevenson Street in Oban, date back to 1879 and are part of a former mission hall designed in a French Gothic style. The building has a rectangular plan with a canted end and features grey stugged, squared, and snecked rubble, complemented by polished red sandstone ashlar dressings and stugged quoins. Above the shopfront is a cornice, with a string course at both the ground and first floor cill levels, and a stone-bracketed cornice at the eaves, highlighted over the downpipes. The first-floor windows are shouldered, with chamfered arrises and transoms.

On the northeast elevation, there is a gabled, canted center bay with two bipartite windows at the ground floor, and a string course with scrolled label stops above. The first floor features a pointed arch, three-light plate tracery window with a hoodmould above. A roundel is present in the gablehead, along with a trefoil window and hoodmould above it, while the skews are adorned with bracketted skewputts and a fleur-de-lys finial at the apex. The flanking bays have gablets that break the eaves, with pointed arch corbel tables over blind trefoil roundels. The first floor includes bipartite windows, and there is a later shop window in the northwest bay. The angles between the bays are decorated with nook shafts.

The west elevation facing Stevenson Street has five bays, including the canted bay described earlier. It features a round-arched doorway in the penultimate bay to the right, complete with a hoodmould, and later shop windows with heavy lintels. The first-floor windows are bipartite in the second, third, and fourth bays from the left. A nepus gable breaks the eaves at the center, corbelled with a date ciphered roundel.

On the east elevation, there are four bays, including the canted bay to the right. A square, two-storey stone entrance porch is located to the outer right, featuring steps and a doorway, with a bipartite window to the east. Above the porch is a cornice and blocking course, topped with a piended roof. The hall has bipartite windows, and there is a shouldered wallhead stack to the right center. The string courses and eaves cornice are stopped at the porch.

The south elevation is cement rendered and features a windowless dormer with a gable breaking the eaves at the center. The building has plate glass glazing and a grey slate roof with a decorative ridge. The decorative polygonal bellcote detailing has been removed, leaving only the plinth.

At the foot of the external stair, there is a single capped stone pier with a short length of iron railing attached.