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14, 16 Princes Street West, Helensburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0043 / 56°0'15"N

Longitude: -4.7339 / 4°44'2"W

OS Eastings: 229627

OS Northings: 682408

OS Grid: NS296824

Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TQJ4

Mapcode Global: WH2M4.8B0X

Plus Code: 9C8Q2738+PC

Entry Name: 14, 16 Princes Street West, Helensburgh

Listing Name: 14-28 (Even Nos) Princes Street West

Listing Date: 30 June 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379231

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34833

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Helensburgh, 14, 16 Princes Street West

ID on this website: 200379231

Location: Helensburgh

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Helensburgh

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

William Tait, 1878. 3-storey, symmetrical 7-bay tenement with modern shops at ground. Cream sandstone ashlar. Modillioned cornice dividing ground and 1st floor; cill course to 1st floor windows surmounted with brattishing interrupted by canted windows; eaves lintel course; bracketted cornice; bracketted corniced windows at 1st floor; raised margins; chamfered reveals, moulded off-set lintels to 1st floor windows; corbelled cills to 2nd floor windows with wrought-iron window-guards to single and bipartite windows.

S (PRINCESS STREET/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pend to centre with panelled fanlit door, modern shops flanking. Bipartite window to centre at 1st and 2nd floors; canted full-height canted oriels flanking, window to far right and left, canted oriels to outer bays.

Mostly plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; finialled piended roofs to canted oriels; corniced sandstone stacks with 2 diamond wallhead stacks on square bases to centre S elevation, mostly original cans; ashlar coped skews.

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