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Latitude: 56.0042 / 56°0'14"N
Longitude: -4.7337 / 4°44'1"W
OS Eastings: 229639
OS Northings: 682397
OS Grid: NS296823
Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TQK8
Mapcode Global: WH2M4.8B3Z
Plus Code: 9C8Q2738+MG
Entry Name: 8 Princes Street West, Helensburgh
Listing Name: 8, 10, 12 Princes Street West
Listing Date: 30 June 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379229
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34832
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Helensburgh, 8 Princes Street West
ID on this website: 200379229
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
W Hunter McNab, 1911. 3-storey, symmetrical 5-bay Jacobean style tenement with shops at ground. Cream sandstone ashlar to S elevation. Cornice between ground and 1st floor; cill and eaves courses; chamfered and moulded arrises; transomed windows and mullioned and transomed canted windows to 1st floor; roll-moulded surrounds to 2nd floor windows.
S (PRINCES STREET/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pilastered pend to centre with round-arched doorway with keystone and twin round-arched lights in panel above. Flanked by modern shops. Ashlar balcony to window above pend. Windows flanking. Pilastered window with decorative pediment set in tall wallhead stack breaking eaves to centre. Pilastered windows breaking eaves to right and left. Gabled and finialled bay to outer left with full-height canted oriel windows recessed in panel with ashlar half-piend roof and crenellated parapet. Mirror image to outer right with banded colonnettes flanking window at 2nd floor, round-headed open pediment cradling niche surmounted by ornate finial. Octagonal corniced wallhead stack to SE angle.
Variety of glazing patterns to sash and case windows; plate glass to lower sashes, 4-pane upper at 1st floor; 6-pane to lower sashes, 4-pane upper at 2nd floor. Grey slate roof, original rainwater goods.
W Hunter McNab was in architectural practice with William Leiper from the 1880s and continued when Leiper retired in 1909. Here McNab uses the same design for the doorway as Leiper's Victoria Infirmary (Helensburgh) of 1895.
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