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Latitude: 56.2655 / 56°15'55"N
Longitude: -5.4648 / 5°27'53"W
OS Eastings: 185531
OS Northings: 713510
OS Grid: NM855135
Mapcode National: GBR DDW4.X63
Mapcode Global: WH0H5.0SZ5
Entry Name: Loch a'Phearsain,fortified island
Scheduled Date: 1 December 1975
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3759
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: enclosure
Location: Kilninver and Kilmelfort
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Circa 1860. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical rectangular-plan villa; subdivided (1948). Squared and snecked rubble; lightly stugged coursed ashlar to N. Base course; cill and band courses; cornice; blocking course; raised window surrounds; chamfered reveals; droved margins.
N (entrance) elevation: architraved doorpiece at centre with carved consoles and cornice; panelled door; 4-light fanlight. Single window above and regular fenestration in remaining bays.
W elevation: lean-to greenhouse at ground floor, with secondary entrance; single window and small square window at 1st floor. Evidence of former structure abutting to 1st floor cill level.
E elevation: single storey extension and service wing linking main house to carriage house (see below).
S elevation: single windows at ground and 1st floor centre; bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor to outer left; late 19th century full-height canted window added to outer right.
12-pane sash and case windows to N; mixture of small-pane and plate glass windows elsewhere. Grey slate shallow pitched piended roof; early 20th century tripartite box dormer to N; canted dormer to S;lead flashing; 3 shouldered wallhead stacks (E and W stacks linked to main roof by mansards); moulded octagonal cans.
Interior: glass panelled vestibule door; decorative plaster cornices; flagged stone hall and vestibule; turned wood screen.
Carriage house: single storey with attic, now serving as garage; 2-leaf double doors; window above; piend-roofed.
Low boundary wall to street; low gatepiers with pyramidal coping; high mutual boundary walls.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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