Carmelite Monastery, Helenslee Road, Dumbarton, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire

Entry Name: Carmelite Monastery, Helenslee Road, Dumbarton

Listing Name: Kirktonhill, Helenslee Road Garmoyle Carmelite Monastery and Garden Walls

Listing Date: 8 September 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361017

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24900

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dumbarton, Helenslee Road, Carmelite Monastery

ID on this website: 200361017

Location: Dumbarton

County: West Dunbartonshire

Town: Dumbarton

Electoral Ward: Dumbarton

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Burnet, Son & Campbell of Glasgow, architects. Built 1890.
Large asymmetrical villa, in Arts & Crafts tradition, Scots
Baronial details. 1 & 2 storeys, set on slope, with basement
raised at south and at west. Stugged and snecked red ashlar
with contrasting yellow ashlar dressings. Modern additions
and alterations to east wing virtually obliterate former
service quarters. North elevation: outer gabled ranges with
roof between swept over ground floor; east wing (approach
through high garden wall), cat-slide roof carried over canted
and swept-eaved porch at left. Irregular fenestration, mostly
single or bipartite windows with roll-moulding; transomed
4-light window and swept-roofed dormer to inner bay, cross
window in left re-entrant angle with strapwork decoration in
tympanum; off-set at basement level, curved angles to gabled
blocks corbelled to square above ground floor. Crowstepped
gables; coped stacks; red tile roofs. Conical-roofed
corbelled circular, 2-storey south west angle turret.
South elevation: single ground floor windows all transomed, 2
in advanced gable at right, below canted and corbelled oriel;
others with pedimented heads; blind, off-centre, segmental
basement opening: 2 inner 1st floor windows with pointed
dormer heads (with later lowered cill at right breaking cill
band): cill bands to inner bays. West elevation: ground floor
bipartite below relieving arch corbelled at left, strapwork
decoration to tynpanum; covered forestair at left to ground
floor; canted, corbelled and margined oriel above breaks
eaves.
Interior: much partitioning in 1930's by Carmelites. Stair
with simple chamfered balusters; chapel (formerly L-plan
drawing room) retains 3/4 panelling, Jacobean chimneypiece
and coffered ceiling with consoles supporting beams.
Garden wall extends to north from porch, with red fireclay
ridging tiles, raised above segmental-arched opening. Garden
enclosed by rubble-built, ashlar-coped walls; rendered square
gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Enclosed as a Carmelite Monastery in 1934.

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