Former Lifeboat House, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

W T Douglass of London, dated 1898. 4 x 1-bay, single storey and attic former Lifeboat House with Voseyesque influence. Rectangular plan, bull-faced, squared and snecked sandstone walls with droved red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, articulated at foot of battered buttresses, eaves course.

NE (KILKERRAN ROAD) ELEVATION: symmetrical, gabled, large doorway with corbels supporting metal beam covered by timber fascia and drip course over. Doorway battered, corresponding with flanking buttresses. Segmental-arched window in gable above, skews stepped at foot, pedimented at apex encompassing datestone bearing date 1898.

SE ELEVATION: 4 bays, divided by buttresses, segmental-arched windows in each bay with sloping cills, ventilators centred in base course below. Gabled bay to outer right, segmental-arched entrance door at ground floor, plaque bearing initials R W L I in gable, skews stepped at foot with pedestal at apex.

NW ELEVATION: 4 symmetrical bays matching 1st to 3rd bays of SE elevation.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: plain symmetrical gable with block skewputts, square window in gablehead.

4-pane fixed-lights at side and NE elevations, 8-pane at rear. 4-leaf folding vertically-boarded timber doors at NE elevation. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge, ashlar skew copes and overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron downpipes centring side elevations, additional downpipe at S corner with hopper. Cast-iron gutters with decorative wrought-iron brackets evenly spaced along eaves.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble retaining wall bounding site to NW. Random rubble dwarf wall with ashlar cope to S, extending to Kilkerran Road and terminated by square stop-chamfered gatepiers with bases and pyramidal caps.