Public Conveniences, Dungallan Parks, Gallanach Road, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1995. Public conveniences and shelter.
Public Conveniences, Dungallan Parks, Gallanach Road, Oban
- WRENN ID
- ragged-hinge-hyssop
- 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
- Public conveniences and shelter
- OS grid reference
- NM 850 297
- Coordinates
- 56.41061, -5.48589
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a public convenience located in Dungallan Parks on Gallanach Road in Oban, dated 1933. It is a single-storey, symmetrical viewing shelter that incorporates public toilets at either end, designed in a simple classical style. The structure has a splayed U-plan and is constructed from concrete blocks.
The west elevation features a loggia with five bays, which is divided by four circular columns that have capitals and bases. This loggia is flanked by pilastered end bays that contain doorways leading to the toilets. The loggia is lined with vertical timber boarding and has a timber bench along its base. The flat roof is surrounded by a parapet with a coping. At the centre of the three-bay roadside (rear) elevation, there is a segmental pediment that includes a datestone. The building also has cast-iron downpipes with decorative brackets and rectangular hoppers located next to the doors.
The interior has not been seen since it was out of use in 1994. A rubble retaining wall supports the road level and is topped with a parapet that alternates with a balustrade made of concrete square profiled balusters. There are steps at the north and south ends, as well as symmetrical ramps leading from the road to the loggia level, which also feature balustrades with concrete square profiled balusters. Additionally, cast-iron lamp standards with fluted stems are present along the pavement.
Local climate
Public Conveniences, Dungallan Parks, Gallanach Road, 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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