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Campbeltown, Castlehill, White Hart Hotel

Hotel (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Campbeltown, Castlehill, White Hart Hotel

Classification Hotel (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Argyll Street

Canmore ID 168053

Site Number NR72SW 168

NGR NR 71892 20288

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Campbeltown
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR72SW 168 71892 20288

Hotel [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.

Site Management (16 February 2018)

3-storey and attic hotel of L-plan arrangement, 6-bay elevations to Castlehill and Argyll Street with additional chamfered mutual corner entrance bay comprising entrance door at ground floor with 3-storey semi-octagonal oriel above. Roughcast walls with droved ashlar dressings, all painted. Base course and eaves course, raised margins at windows and door openings.

A photograph of the hotel prior to rebuilding shows a plain 7-bay gabled building. Warrant applications for alterations and additions were made in 1897 and 1907 by Captain H Macneal Younger of Lossit, who also owned the Machrihanish hotel by Sydney Mitchell. The polygonal corner tower with ogee roof (echoed in the neighbouring red sandstone Barochan Place) is redolent of Mitchell's designs. Bracket marks at 2nd floor, 6th bay, indicate the point where there was formerly a sculpture of a deer. The forcefulness of the main design elements grouped around the corner is somewhat reduced by the absence of the deer sculpture which worked visually in conjunction with the chimney to great effect. This remains, however, an impressive building on this prominent corner site. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

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