Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BLAIRMORE PLACE (MIXED USE BUILDING AT BLAIRMORE PIER)LB50422

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Group Category Details
100000020 - See Notes
Date Added
04/05/2006
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Parish
Dunoon And Kilmun
National Park
Loch Lomond And The Trossachs
NGR
NS 19505 81717
Coordinates
219505, 681717

Description

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Built c1857 and later extended, this rectangular-plan building with businesses on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floor is the only surviving commercial or mixed use building in Blairmore. The building emphasises the importance of steamer traffic to development there and contributes to the streetscape to form a nucleus for the scattered development along the shore.

Blairmore Place has 6 window bays on the upper floor and a series of simple, large plate-glass shop windows and doors on the ground floor. The rendered ground floor is separated from the upper by a band course. There is little other embellishment, apart from projecting rafters. To the rear, stone steps with cast iron balusters lead to some of the upper flats. From the 1st edition OS map it is evident that the N half of the building was built first and served as the telegraph office. The S half was built later in the 19th century and it is likely that the building was remodelled to provide a matching whole. The same photograph also appears to show 3 small shops and one double-fronted shop to the N. However, since then, a door has been blocked up to form a larger unit - now a café/art gallery (2004).

Interior: access was gained to only parts of the building during the survey (2004). Those areas seen have been modernised.

Materials: sandstone ashlar with raised margins and surrounds to front elevation, rendered to ground floor. Timber boarded double door. Plate glass windows to ground floor, otherwise a variety of window types, including timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Stone stacks with polygonal clay cans.

Statement of Special Interest

On earlier photographs a Post Office, Plumber and baker/confectioner are visible. Immediately to the south of this was a larger, gabled 2-3 storey tenement and commercial building, which was replaced c1970 with housing. A number of buildings which appear to the rear of Blairmore Place on the 2nd edition OS map have since become ruinous.

The early use of the building as a telegraph office is important as this was the location of an underwater cable from Cove.

B-Group with Blairmore Hall, Pier and Ticket Office (see separate listings).

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey 1st edition (c1863) and 2nd edition (c1898); Ordnance Gazzetteer of Scotland (c.1882); Walker, F A, Buildings of Scotland: Argyll and Bute (2000), 147; Information courtesy of a local resident (2004); Photographs, NMRS.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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