Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

DHUHILL HOUSE AND CONSERVATORY, DHUHILL DRIVE WESTLB34769

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
30/06/1993
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Burgh
Helensburgh
NGR
NS 30082 83705
Coordinates
230082, 683705

Description

1847 2-storey and attic, asymmetrical Franco-Italianate villa. Red

and grey stugged, snecked sandstone rubble; squarted to S elevation with rock-faced dressings and details. Cill, lkintel and string courses; rusticated margins to windows; cornice; long and short quoins.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: recessed bay to centre with flight of 5 steps

to single storey arcaded porch, depressed arch to centre with round arches flanking, square rusticated and blocked columns with simple moulded capitals, voussoirs, dentilled cornice, lean-to roof. Doorway to centre panelled door, (half-glazed vestibule door) windows with etched glazing flanking. 3 closely spaced windows above at 1st floor. Semi-circular gabled dormer above with 2 round-arched lights. Advanced bay to outer right, deep full-height bow, 3 windows at ground and 1st floor including round-arched window to centre at 1st floor and round-arched cornice above, piended roof. Taller advanced block to outer left with steeply pitched roof and bracketted cornice; advanced squared tripartite window at ground and 1st floor, lean-to slate roof, dentilled cornice; narrow tripartite window above; single gabled dormer to attic with pointed-arch light.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: return of taller block with window at ground and 1st floor, 3 closely grouped windows to 2nd floor. Slightly recessed blank bay to left, gabled return with apex stack to N with small window at 1st floor and window to 2nd floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: long stair window (7 panels) to centre with Art Nouveau stained glass. Asymmetrically disposed windows flanking and on return to right.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: single storey wing to right with piended roof; 2 windows at 1st floor; conservatory abutting to left (see below). CONSERVATORY: semi-circular in plan, sandstone plinth, doorway to S, 4-pane curved glazing, rectangular lantern.

Mostly plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof (detailed above); dormers to S notes above, flat-roofed slate-hung twin dormers to N, dormer to E. Rendered corniced end stacks to E and rubble apex stack to N.

INTERIOR: ecaustic tiles to porch; pine and rosewood inlay floor to hall. Corniced ceilings. Timber balustraded stair; gothic screen to stair window. Drawing room at 1st floor with deep chamfered angle to bay window. Timber chimneypieces.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: rubble boundary walls. Square-plan piers, coped, ball finials, timber gates.

Statement of Special Interest

See also, Sinclair Street, Dhuhill Lodge listed separately.

References

Bibliography

Information courtesy of the present owner.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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