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19 Abercromby Street East, Helensburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0104 / 56°0'37"N

Longitude: -4.7181 / 4°43'5"W

OS Eastings: 230637

OS Northings: 683053

OS Grid: NS306830

Mapcode National: GBR 0F.T81W

Mapcode Global: WH2M4.H6H5

Plus Code: 9C8Q276J+5P

Entry Name: 19 Abercromby Street East, Helensburgh

Listing Name: 19 Abercromby Street East

Listing Date: 30 June 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379037

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34699

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Helensburgh, 19 Abercromby Street East

ID on this website: 200379037

Location: Helensburgh

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Helensburgh

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh and Lomond South

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Mitchell and Whitelaw, 1907. 2-storey, asymmetrical Scottish Arts

and Crafts style villa. Harled and painted; some stugged and snecked cream sandstone detail, ashlar dressings. Corbel course between ground and 1st floor; deep swept overhanging eaves.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: basket-arched doorway off-centre right, stop-chamfered arrises with roll-moulded surround, half-glazed boarded door. Window flanking to right. Bipartite window at 1st floor. Taller shaped gable bay advanced to left, stugged and snecked sandstone at ground with canted window partly recessed between piers supporting corbelled upper storey, corbelled shall canted oriel to 1st floor. Recessed bay to left with window at ground to outer left and small window above at 1st floor.

SW ELEVATION: window to centre at ground, shallow canted oriel breaking eaves above, half-piend roof. Similarly detailed bay to outer left. Full-height bowed projection to outer right, cream sandstone to ground floor, harled above, 3 windows at ground and 1st floor, concial roof.

NW ELEVATION: canted 4-light oriel breaking eaves to centre. Window to left at ground, small window above at 1st floor. Gable bay to outer right. Modern car port abutting below oriel window.

Small-pane casement windows and fixed-pane windows with top hoppers. Grey/green slates; harled coped stack; shaped gable to E elevation with ashlar coped skews and large scrolled skewputts; original rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

One of six houses with details in common, built by Mitchell and Whitelaw between 1907 and 1912 on ground adjacent to the golf course.

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