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Rowanmore, 103 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.008 / 56°0'28"N

Longitude: -4.7318 / 4°43'54"W

OS Eastings: 229777

OS Northings: 682821

OS Grid: NS297828

Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TJZ4

Mapcode Global: WH2M4.9800

Plus Code: 9C8Q2759+67

Entry Name: Rowanmore, 103 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh

Listing Name: 103 Sinclair Street, Rowanmore with Boundary Wall and Piers

Listing Date: 30 June 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379265

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34859

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200379265

Location: Helensburgh

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Helensburgh

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Circa 1860. Single storey and attic, 3-bay symmetrical villa.

Stugged, snecked grey and red sandstone, painted S elevation, harled to N; ashlar dressings; bull-faced base course to S. Stepped cill course; eaves course; cornice and parapet; ashlar mullioned windows with moulded reveals; quoin strips.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: recessed bay to centre with semi-circular arched, pilastered doorpiece with keystone above flight of 6 steps, 2-leaf fanlit doors, half-glazed vestibule door. Canted windows flanking with set-back tall canted dormers above breaking eaves, slate-hung, piended slate roof, pierced stone aprons. Small dormer between.

E (SINCLAIR STREET/SIDE) ELEVATION: window at 1st floor to centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: full-height projection to centre with timber lean-ton porch to N. Corrugated iron lean-to to outer right.

W (ELEVATION): window off-centre left at ground; window at 1st floor; door to basement to outer right.

Plate glass sash and case windows to S; 12-lying pane sash and case elsewhere. Purple/grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews; ashlar corniced gable stack to left.

INTERIOR: corniced ceilings; original chimneypieces.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: semi-circular coped rubble boundary wall, drum piers with semi-circular caps and ribbon pointing.

Statement of Interest

Very similar design to Kildare Lodge, 62 Colquhoun Street. The villas were built for two sisters.

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