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Latitude: 56.0044 / 56°0'15"N
Longitude: -4.7215 / 4°43'17"W
OS Eastings: 230399
OS Northings: 682394
OS Grid: NS303823
Mapcode National: GBR 0F.TM8D
Mapcode Global: WH2M4.FBWS
Plus Code: 9C8Q273H+Q9
Entry Name: 15 King's Crescent, Helensburgh
Listing Name: 15 King's Crescent (Formerly Towerville Lodge)
Listing Date: 30 June 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379178
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34801
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200379178
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Gatehouse
Patrick Murray, 1877 with additions by Peat and Duncan, 1888. Single storey, 4-bay lodge with canted bays and Tudor Gothic detail. Brick with wet-harl, painted white. Base course. Single and bay windows with decorative timber mouldings; colonnettes and roll-moulding to surrounds and mullions. Overhanging, bracketted eaves. Ornamental finials.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber panelled door to centre with fan-light above and moulded surround. To left, advanced bay with 2 windows. To right, rounded, 4-window bay with conical roof and ornamental finial. W ELEVATION: further canted window to centre with colonnette-mullions.
Later, lean-to garage to E elevation and further lean-to addition to rear.
4-pane plate glass to timber sash and case windows; 2-pane glazing pattern to canted bays. Piended grey slate roof; tall, rendered end stacks. Low boundary wall with arrow-capped gatepiers.
A good example of a diminuitive, former cottage lodge with distinctive Tudor Gothic detail. Located near the middle of a sweeping crescent, the building contributes positively to the interest of the streetscape. Built for Reverend Thomas White as an additional lodge or gardener's cottage for Towerville (see separate listing), designed in 1858 by the renowned Scottish architect John Honeyman and located on higher ground to the NW. The additions and alterations to the lodge at King's Crescent carried out in 1888 are by local architects John Grahame Peat and Robert Duncan who also completed an additional wing and stable block for Towerville in the same year.
The Buildings of Scotland attributes 15 King's Crescent to Honeyman but Dean of Guild records have provided correct attribution to local builder, Patrick Murray. List description revised, 2011.
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