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

76, 78 PRINCES STREET WEST AND 18, 20 JAMES STREETLB34836

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 29443 82466
Coordinates
229443, 682466

Description

Robert Wemyss, 1896. 3-storey, near symmetrical Art and Crafts

tenement on corner site with taller 2-bay corner block, modern shops and licensed premises at ground. Harled with red sandstone ashlar and brick dressings and detailing. Cornice at ground floor; cill course; overhanging-eaves; ashlar mullions to canted windows; sandstone architraves to windows; bracketted cills to 1st floor.

S (PRINCES STREET) ELEVATION: 2-storey circular corner tower to outer left (SW), corbelled at 1st floor, 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floors, windows to centre set in ashlar panel, brick apron to 2nd floor window with carved ashlar panel with masque motif. Mock half-timbering detail below eaves; conical slate roof with finial. Bay to right with 1st and 2nd floor windows linked in ashlar panel, 2nd floor window with round-headed pediement and decorated tympanum breaking into gableheead; corbelled and conriced ashlar pilaster-strip with ball finial to right at 2nd floor. 2 windows off-centre right at 1st and 2nd floors. Taller gabled bay to outer right with full-height canted oriel, ashlar and brick panel between windows, brick string course to gablehead with carved ashlar panel to centre.

W (JAMES STREET) ELEVATION: shouldered gable with apex stack to left of corner tower, ashlar coped skews, block skewputts and corniced stack; skew to left interruptedby corbelled pilaster strip (as above) with scrolled skewputt flanking to left. Windows at 1st and 2nd floors in round-arched panel with mannered scrolled pediment above 2nd floor window. Gabled bay off-centre left detailed as Princes Street, window at 1st and 2nd floors flanking set in ashlar panel with brick detail between; narrow window at 1st and 2nd floors to far right.

Mostly PVC replacement windows with some plate glass sash and case windows and 3-pane (vertically divided) to lower sash and multi-pane upper. Tiled roof, corniced stacks.

Statement of Special Interest

Tenement block and shops built for William Tait. The wing facing Princess Street is an older block reconstructed, the corner block and the wing facing James Street are new build.

References

Bibliography

Dumbarton district Library, Dean of Guild Drawings for Helensburgh

(Box 1895-1899).

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.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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