Former Lifeboat House, Kilkerran Road, Campbeltown

The Former Lifeboat House on Kilkerran Road in Campbeltown was designed by W T Douglass of London and dates back to 1898. This single-storey building with an attic features a rectangular plan and exhibits Voseyesque architectural influence. Its walls are made of bull-faced, squared, and snecked sandstone, accented with droved red sandstone ashlar dressings. The structure includes a base course, articulated at the foot of battered buttresses, and an eaves course.

The northeast elevation facing Kilkerran Road is symmetrical and gabled, featuring a large doorway supported by corbels and a metal beam, which is covered by a timber fascia and drip course. The doorway is battered, aligning with the flanking buttresses. Above the doorway, there is a segmental-arched window in the gable, which has stepped skews at the base and a pediment at the apex that includes a datestone marked with the year 1898.

On the southeast elevation, there are four bays divided by buttresses, each containing segmental-arched windows with sloping cills. Ventilators are located in the base course below the windows. The outer right bay is gabled and features a segmental-arched entrance door at ground level, with a plaque bearing the initials R W L I in the gable. This gable also has stepped skews at the base and a pedestal at the apex.

The northwest elevation mirrors the first three bays of the southeast elevation, maintaining a symmetrical appearance with four bays. The southwest elevation, or rear, is a plain symmetrical gable with block skewputts and a square window in the gablehead.

The building has 4-pane fixed lights on the side and northeast elevations, and 8-pane windows at the rear. The northeast elevation features 4-leaf folding vertically-boarded timber doors. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a terracotta ridge, ashlar skew copes, and overhanging timber eaves. Cast-iron downpipes are centered on the side elevations, with an additional downpipe at the southern corner that has a hopper. The gutters are made of cast iron and are supported by decorative wrought-iron brackets that are evenly spaced along the eaves.

The boundary walls include a random rubble retaining wall that bounds the site to the northwest, and a random rubble dwarf wall with an ashlar cope to the south, which extends to Kilkerran Road. This wall is terminated by square stop-chamfered gatepiers with bases and pyramidal caps.