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38-44 John Street, Helensburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0052 / 56°0'18"N

Longitude: -4.7386 / 4°44'18"W

OS Eastings: 229339

OS Northings: 682528

OS Grid: NS293825

Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TPFL

Mapcode Global: WH2M4.5BS5

Plus Code: 9C8Q2746+3H

Entry Name: 38-44 John Street, Helensburgh

Listing Name: 32-44 (Even Nos) John Street

Listing Date: 30 June 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379170

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34794

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200379170

Location: Helensburgh

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Helensburgh

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Dated 1873. 2-storey and attic, symmetrical 8-bay tenement consisting of a pair of semi-detached 4-bay blocks. Rendered and lined as ashlar. Raised margins, applied finialled pediments to 1st floor windows, ashlar mullioned windows. W (JOHN STREET/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: block to right, Nos 32-36; pend to centre with doorways flanking (doorway to left, blocked as window). Bipartite windows flanking. Window off-centre right and left at 1st floor. Bipartite windows to outer bays. Mirror image to 4-bay block to left nos 38-44, with doorways flanking pend blocked as windows, window to right at ground with mullion removed.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled, apex stack.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled with window to centre at 1st floor, apex stack.

Variety of glazing patterns, some 4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Corniced rendered stacks; moulded cans with fret pattern to base and corniced; wallhead stack with moulded base to centre of each block, that to right with date inscribed at base. 2 gabled slate-hung dormers to centre (between wallhead stacks) and to outer right and left, fleuron motif to gableheads (missing from dormer off-centre left).

Statement of Interest

Similar in design to Nos 46-56 John Street which was built in 1877 to the designs of RB of West Clyde Street.

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