Soroba House Hotel, Soroba Road, Oban is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. House. 2 related planning applications.
Soroba House Hotel, Soroba Road, Oban
- WRENN ID
- dark-plinth-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Soroba House Hotel, Soroba Road, Oban, PA34 4SB
- OS grid reference
- NM 858 283
- Coordinates
- 56.39885, -5.47105
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Soroba House Hotel, located on Soroba Road in Oban, is a late 18th century, three-bay, two-storey house with a rectangular plan and projecting wings to the north, south, and east. The exterior is cement rendered and lined.
On the west elevation, there are shallow bows flanking the central bay. The eaves feature a cornice, and the windows on both the ground and first floors are Wyatt windows, with raised margins and projecting cills. The central bay contains a door with a window above it.
The south elevation has a gabled appearance, with a single window at landing level in the center. To the right, there is a two-storey wing that includes a flat-roofed porch, adding an extra bay to the south elevation at ground level, which is fronted by a loggia. The loggia features a rustic rubble wall on the west elevation and a pointed-arch Gothic-glazed fixed light window.
The north elevation also has a gabled design, with a single bipartite window to the left at landing level. There is a single-storey wing projecting to the north at ground level, which includes a bipartite window on the west elevation.
The main openings of the principal elevation feature six-pane timber sash and case windows with four-pane sidelights. The north and south wings, as well as the west elevation of the loggia, have four-pane and eight-pane timber sash and case windows. The rear wings have modern glazing. The roofs are covered with grey slate, pitched over the loggia and wings, except for the gabled center rear wing. The bows have lead flat roofs. There are cast-iron downpipes and gutters, with skews to the gables and coped four-flue stacks topped with circular black cans.
Local climate
Soroba House Hotel, Soroba 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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