British Linen Bank, Station Road, Oban

This is an early 20th-century bank building, constructed in a classical style with influences from the Beaux Arts movement. It is located in Oban and has a distinctive U-shaped plan, with a three-bay central section flanked by two-storey wings that project backwards. The street-facing elevations are finished in sandstone ashlar, while the end walls of the wings are rendered.

The building is two stories high and features a base course, a horizontally channelled ground floor, a band course at the first floor level, a string course at the lintel level of the first-floor windows, and a bold, bracketed eaves cornice. Raised margins are positioned above the articulated string course, framing the jambs and sills of the first-floor windows.

The west (entrance) elevation is symmetrical, with a central doorpiece featuring an architrave, flanked by square columns and an entablature. The ground-floor channelled walling continues to form cavetto-moulded window jambs, and there are keystones at the centre of the lintels. The central first-floor window has a lowered cill and is framed by an architrave and a frieze that ties into the main eaves cornice.

The southwest elevation, belonging to the south wing, returns into the side elevation of the central section. It features a corniced doorway with cavetto moulding, an architraved surround, and a keystone above. The northwest elevation, belonging to the north wing, originally had five bays. The ground floor is now partially obscured by a modern addition. The central first-floor window is treated with a surround mirroring that of the west elevation, and there are narrower windows at bays two and four.

The first-floor windows are timber sash and case windows, with 12 and 15 panes in the centre bays of the west and northwest elevations, 8 panes in bays two and four of the northwest elevation, and 6 panes elsewhere. The ground-floor windows and original entrance door have been replaced with modern glazing. A panelled timber door with a glazed upper half is located in the southwest elevation.

The central section has a green-slated, piended mansard roof with a pronounced bellcast, heavy flashings with anthemions at the corners of the eaves, and a lead platform at the top with edge mouldings. The wing roofs are also green-slated and have concealed flashings. Square, cast-iron downpipes with decorative brackets run down the wing returns, flanking the central section. Corniced stacks rise from the wing ridges, and there is a single-flue wallhead stack at the end elevation of the north wing.