Information Centre, 4 Clyde Street East, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Historic church.
Information Centre, 4 Clyde Street East, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- first-gallery-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Historic church
- OS grid reference
- NS 296 822
- Coordinates
- 56.00266, -4.73377
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Information Centre located at 4 Clyde Street East in Helensburgh was designed by Charles Wilson in 1846, with a porch added by Robert Wemyss in 1923. The building features snecked red sandstone with cream ashlar dressings.
The west elevation is gabled and consists of three bays, highlighted by an Italianate four-stage tower at the center. This tower has round-arched windows on either side, flanking a single-storey porch made of cream snecked sandstone. The porch is pilastered, topped with a finial, and has a stepped parapet. There is a round-arched window on the west elevation and another on the right side of the porch, with a door on the left side. Above the porch, the second stage of the tower features a round-arched window. Each face of the tower's third stage has a tripartite round-arched louvred window for the belfry, and there are clock faces on each upper storey elevation, topped with a finialled roof. The windows throughout the building have a multi-pane glazing pattern.
Local climate
Information Centre, 4 Clyde Street East, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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