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Redcote, 23 Henry Bell Street, Helensburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0046 / 56°0'16"N

Longitude: -4.7162 / 4°42'58"W

OS Eastings: 230732

OS Northings: 682397

OS Grid: NS307823

Mapcode National: GBR 0F.TNGY

Mapcode Global: WH2M4.JBDP

Plus Code: 9C8Q273M+RG

Entry Name: Redcote, 23 Henry Bell Street, Helensburgh

Listing Name: 23 Henry Bell Street, Redcote

Listing Date: 30 June 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379161

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34786

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Helensburgh, 23 Henry Bell Street, Redcote

ID on this website: 200379161

Location: Helensburgh

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Helensburgh

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

T L Watson, 1881. 2-storey, asymmetrical, L-plan Shavian/Old English Arts and Crafts style villa. Stugged, snecked red sandstone, ashlar dressings, mock half-timbering to gableheads. Base course; chamfered arrises; ashlar mullions to ground floor windows; overhanging bracketted eaves.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled entrance bay to left with full-width lean-to timber porch, timber posts, balustrade, part to left glazed-in as conservatory with lead-pane glazing, terrazzo tiles, half-glazed door, grey/green and red tiled roof. Round-arched doorway off-centre right, 2-leaf panelled doors, half-glazed vestibule door. Slightly advanced chimney wall to centre above, window to right at 1st floor, half-timbering above with small attic window to right, apex stack. Single storey and attic, single bay to right, bipartite window at ground, 2-light gabled dormer window supported on brackets breaking eaves above, half-timbering to gablehead. Lower single storey and attic lean-to wing recessed to outer right. Blank at ground, corbelled above with half-timbering and small windows to gablehead.

SW ELEVATION: canted ashlar window to left, corbelled to half-timber canted window above, polygonal tiled roof, finial. Tripartite window to right at ground, 3-light window supported on brackets breaking eaves above, finial to roof.

Mostly plate glass sash and case windows. Red tiled roof, rendered corniced stacks, original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen.

CONSERVATORY: rectangular-plan conservatory abutting NW angle.

Statement of Interest

An early date for use of mock half-timbering in Scotland.

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