Description

Stewart and Paterson, 1936. Broadly symmetrical, 3-storey Art Deco tenement group forming E-plan with central block flanked by L-plan blocks with round-arched keystoned gateways with double courtyard to rear. Harled with render and brick dressings. Tall base course; 3rd storey set-back slightly with brick cill course and architraved windows.

Block to centre (Nos 24, 26 King Street E) on NS axis and set back from street:

N (SIDE/KING STREET) ELEVATION: wallhead stack to centre with advanced chimney wall, off-set and gablet moulding at 2nd floor. Flanked by windows to each storey. Linked at angles by screen walls to flanking L-plan blocks.

E (ENTRANCE/COURTYARD) ELEVATION: 15 bays. 5 bays to centre with window to each bay at ground, 1st and 2nd floors, window to centre at 1st floor with apron and set in slightly recessed semi-circular-headed panel. Slightly advanced entrance/stair bays flanking; each with doorway set in broad stepped rendered panel, tall narrow stair window above, lunette with keystone to 2nd floor, half-piended roof. 3 bays to right of entrance bay with window to each bay at ground, 1st and 2nd floors; 2-storey canted window to outer right, with bipartite window at 2nd floor above. 4 bays to outer left mirror image of those to right. L-plan block flanking to left (Nos 28 King St E and 13 Charlotte Street).

N (ENTRANCE/28 KING ST E) ELEVATION: 7 bays. Doorway to centre set in broad slightly advanced stepped rendered panel, narrow window set in decorative brick panel. 3 bays flanking with windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-storey canted window to centre; 3 windows to 2nd floor. Joined to screen wall at SW angle.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground and 1st floor, window at 2nd floor. Joining 13 Charlotte Street block at SE angle.

E (ENTRANCE/13 CHARLOTTE STREET) ELEVATION: 7 bays. Slightly advanced 2-storey, entrance/stair bay to centre, doorway detailed as Nos 24, 26 King Street E. 3 bays flanking at ground, 1st and 2nd floors.

N (SIDE/KING STREET) ELEVATION: wallhead stack to centre with advanced chimney wall, rendered band at 2nd floor, flanked by windows at each storey.

L-plan flanking to right (Nos 22 King Street East and 38, 40 Grant Street.

N (ENTRANCE/22 KING STREET E) ELEVATION: mirror image of 28 King St E.

W (ENTRANCE/GRANT STREET) ELEVATION: 11 bays; 40 Grant St; 6 bays to left, doorway off-centre right detailed as 22 King Street E block, 2 bays flanking with windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors, 2-storey canted window to outer left with bipartite window at 2nd floor above. 38 Grant Street; 5 bays; doorway off-centre left, detailed as Nos 24, 26 King Street and 15 Charlotte Street; 2-storey canted window to left, bipartite window at 2nd floor above. 3-bays to right with windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors, including window with apron at 1st floor centre and set in slightly recessed panel.

Some original 12-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows; variety of non-traditional window units currently predominates (2009). Grey slate roof, coped harled stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

A well-planned and detailed example of larger-scale inter-war municipal tenement housing in Helensburgh. Its loose Art-Deco treatment and broadly symmetrical E-plan arrangement around a double courtyard set it apart as a example of its type.

Municipal housing in Helensburgh dates from 1919, when it was estimated that sixty houses were needed for the Burgh. Stewart and Paterson were chosen as consultant architects and became responsible for the majority of distinctive local authority housing in Helensburgh.

Change of category from B to C(S), 2009.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635327

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