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Latitude: 56.2692 / 56°16'9"N
Longitude: -5.4717 / 5°28'18"W
OS Eastings: 185125
OS Northings: 713944
OS Grid: NM851139
Mapcode National: GBR DDW4.LFH
Mapcode Global: WH0H4.XPL9
Entry Name: Loch a'Phearsain,dun 200m W of
Scheduled Date: 23 December 1977
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3793
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Kilninver and Kilmelfort
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Circa 1790. 3-storey and attic, 5 x 7-bay Classical tenement with altered commercial premises to ground, situated on sloping site with principal elevation to Hunter Square (N) and other elevations to South Bridge (E) and Blair Street (W). Ashlar. Band course, cornice. Raised cills. Pediments to each façade with central lunettes. Later projecting 2-storey integral extension to W (Blair Street), timber at 1st storey.
Principal elevation to N with recessed central timber and glass panelled entrance door with decorative metal panels, set in concave, round-arched doorway with carved tympanum. Pilastered, broken pediment doorpiece. Doric pilasters rising from 1st storey separate bays. Triglyph and paterae frieze. To right, public house returns to W with timber fascia and panelled stall risers. Decorative timber pilasters, some paired and fluted Ionic consoles. Dentilled cornice.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows to upper storeys, plate glass to shop front to ground. Grey slate. Coped gable stacks.
INTERIOR: (partly seen 2007). Comprehensively modernised.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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