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Latitude: 56.0164 / 56°0'59"N
Longitude: -4.7254 / 4°43'31"W
OS Eastings: 230213
OS Northings: 683741
OS Grid: NS302837
Mapcode National: GBR 0F.SSH6
Mapcode Global: WH2M4.D11K
Plus Code: 9C8Q278F+HV
Entry Name: Ardluss, 135 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh
Listing Name: 135 Sinclair Street, Ardluss with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 30 June 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379272
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34865
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Helensburgh, 135 Sinclair Street, Ardluss
ID on this website: 200379272
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Villa
William Leiper, 1900. 2-storey, asymmetrical L-plan Arts and Crafts villa. Stugged, snecked and rake-jointed red sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings, red tile-hanging to gablehead and part 1st floor. Corbel course at 1st floor; ashlar mullioned and transomed windows; chamfered arrises; overhanging eaves; some bargeboard.
E (SIDE/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: slightly advanced door bay to outer right, pointed-arch, hoodmould, deeply chamfered reveals, boarded door. Overhanging tile-hung gable above with lop-sided jerkin head and bipartite timber mullioned window. Bipartite window to left at ground. Tile-hung at 1st floor now covered by ivy. Return to right with tripartite mullioned and transomed window at ground, tile-hung at 1st floor with bipartite timber mullioned window. Elizabethan stair window to far right at 1st floor. Single storey and attic service wing advanced to right (see below).
S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: gabled, full-height deep canted window off-centre left, transomed at ground, tile-hung gablehead. Window to right at ground. Bipartite mullioned and transomed window to far right, 4-light window above at 1st floor. Bipartite window to outer right at ground; tile-hung at 1st floor with timber mullioned bipartite window.
Bipartite window to left of canted window at ground with relieving arch; bipartite window at 1st floor. Semi-octagonal canted tower to SW angle, 3 transomed window at ground and 1st floor, polygonal finialled (top missing) roof.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground with relieving arch; bipartite window at 1st floor now blinded. 2 lower recessed bays to left, 2 windows at ground, window at 1st floor. Single storey and attic wing to outer left see below.
SERVICE WING: red sandstone rubble to ground, tile-hung attic.
E elevation; doorway to centre, window to right, door to outer right. Tripartite window to left of doorway, window to far left. Tripartite window to left at 1st floor; dormer breaking eaves to right. Tripartite window to gablehead on return to right (N). W elevation; 3 asymmetrically disposed windows at ground. Tripartite dormer to right, jerkin head to left with 4-light window to gablehead.
Sash and case windows with plate glass to lower sashes, multi-pane to upper sashes at ground; 12-pane sash and case to 1st floor; multi-pane casement windows; lead-pane glazing to hall and stairhall windows. Red tiled roof, red sandstone corniced stacks.
INTERIOR: plain cornices; timber balustraded stiar; dining room with original timber chimneypiece, timber beamed ceiling supported on stone corbels.
BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES: semi-circular coped red sandstone wall, pyramidal capped sandstone piers with roll-moulded angles; timber gates.
Built for Mr Russell, the factor of Luss Estates.
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