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Latitude: 55.9481 / 55°56'53"N
Longitude: -4.5478 / 4°32'52"W
OS Eastings: 240999
OS Northings: 675712
OS Grid: NS409757
Mapcode National: GBR 0M.YB96
Mapcode Global: WH3NK.3RNH
Plus Code: 9C7QWFX2+6V
Entry Name: Gate Piers, Overtoun West Lodge, Overtoun Hospital
Listing Name: Overtoun Gatepiers at West Lodge on Stirling Road
Listing Date: 8 September 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361028
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24911
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Overtoun Hospital, Overtoun West Lodge, Gate Piers
ID on this website: 200361028
Location: Dumbarton
County: West Dunbartonshire
Town: Dumbarton
Electoral Ward: Dumbarton
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
James Thomson of Glasgow, architect. Built 1895. 2 tall
square inner gatepiers with Renaissance details; panelled,
with strings and crests, corniced and finialed; smaller
simplified piers to pedestrian entrance. Polished ashlar.
Elaborately decorated wrought-iron gates. Long quadrant walls
extend to north and south; stugged ashlar, with polished
coping and partly pierced with circles and diamonds.
A bronze plaque on one pier states that the gates, gatepiers
and walls were gifted to Dumbarton Town Council by Mr Taggart
and Mickel, built October 1950.
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