Rimsdale, 108 Clyde Street East, Helensburgh

Rimsdale, located at 108 Clyde Street East, Helensburgh, is a pair of double villas dating from 1845. Built in a near-symmetrical design, the villas are of Regency style and feature a painted timber verandah. The construction is primarily cream, grey, and red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Notable features include a base course, raised margins, hoodmoulds, tripartite windows with ashlar mullions, corniced canted windows, bracketted eaves on the left-hand property (No 110), and bargeboards on the right-hand property (No 108).

The north-facing elevation has a broad, recessed gabled bay at the centre, flanked by advanced gabled bays. A decorative iron verandah spans the four ground-floor bays of the central recess, divided by an abutting boundary wall and a pedestrian gate. An entrance to No 108 is located to the outer right, featuring a panelled door and a half-glazed vestibule door, while a similar arrangement exists to the left of centre for No 110, with two boarded doors and a half-glazed vestibule door. A tripartite window sits above the central recess on the first floor. Modern single-storey wings abut the outer right and left sides.

The south-facing elevation is marked by a central M-gabled structure. To the left is No 108, with a door to the left and a canted window to the right, complemented by two first-floor windows. A single-storey wing extends to the outer left. No 110 is positioned on the right, featuring a tripartite window to the left and a window (formerly a door) to the right, with two further first-floor windows. A low two-storey wing extends to the right, featuring a door and window at ground level, and two gabled dormerheaded windows breaking the eaves of the first floor. A single-storey wing with what was formerly a fisherman’s cottage is attached to this wing, now with altered openings and two windows facing south, and a gable apex stack to the west.

The original windows on the north elevation are 12-pane sash and case, while others are plate glass and four-pane sash and case. No 108 has a grey slate roof, while No 110 features a modern tiled roof. Ashlar corniced stacks with original cans are present, and No 108 boasts a gabled dormer.

The interior of No 110 includes rooms with cornicing, a marble chimneypiece in the hall and dining room, and an iron balustered staircase.

Boundary walls are constructed of red and grey sandstone, and there is an attractive early 20th-century timber gate leading to No 110.

A set of red brick, gabled, two-storey rectangular-plan stables and hayloft stands nearby, with a later single-storey wing (now a garage) abutting to the north. The stables feature a blocked semi-circular headed opening and a blocked semi-circular window and a grey slate roof with bargeboard.