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Latitude: 56.0055 / 56°0'19"N
Longitude: -4.7526 / 4°45'9"W
OS Eastings: 228467
OS Northings: 682593
OS Grid: NS284825
Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TL93
Mapcode Global: WH2M3.Z90Y
Plus Code: 9C8Q264W+6X
Entry Name: Lodge, Cairndhu House, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh
Listing Name: Rhu Road Lower, Cairndhu Lodge with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 22 July 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379253
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34848
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Helensburgh, Rhu Road Lower, Cairndhu House, Lodge
ID on this website: 200379253
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
William Leiper, 1871. Single storey and attic, L-plan Scots
Renaissance style lodge. Cream squared and coursed sandstone, ashlar dressings. Roll-moulded cill course; chamfered reveals with roll-moulding; shaped and moulded gables with ball finials; corbel course.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance porch in re-entrant angle with round-headed doorway set in squared panel, boarded door; corbelled and crenellated parapet with ball finial surmounting angle. Blank wall to right with corbel course. Gabled bay to left with kneelers and ball finials; squat bow to outer left with raised blank ashlar panel to centre, windows flanking, eaves course and finialled half-conical roof. Raised blank ashlar panel to right.
Small gablehead window with open semi-circular headed pediment cradling finial with cartouche in tympanum.
S ELEVATION: chamfered angles corbelled to square below corbel course. Corbelled gablehead stepped over bipartite window to centre; raised blank ashlar panel above. Single storey flat-roofed modern addition abutting to outer right (E).
E ELEVATION: shaped gable with small gablehead window.
N ELEVATION: window to centre, advanced full-height chimney wall to right with gablet below rendered wallhead stack.
Modern uPVC glazing. Grey/green slates; polygonal sandstone corniced stack to centre, original cans.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: cream ashlar clustered columnar piers (quatrefoil in section), surmounted by banded pyramids raised on small ashlar balls. Snecked red sandstone, ashlar coped quadrant walls flanked with stepped boundary wall.
A Group with Cairndhu House listed separately. Cairndhu Lodge is similar in style to that at Colearn Castle built by Leiper in 1869 for Alexander Mackintosh.
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