71 King Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993.
71 King Street West, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-bailey-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1993
- OS grid reference
- NS 292 826
- Coordinates
- 56.00611, -4.74041
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 William Street in Helensburgh is an earlier 19th-century single-storey and attic villa with a symmetrical three-bay design, flanked by recessed single-bay pavilions. The building features painted squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, including a base and lintel course, cornice, blocking course, architrave to windows, and pilaster quoins.
The entrance elevation on William Street has a pilastered doorway at the center, which includes a deep-set fanlit panelled door and a half-glazed vestibule door, with a dado rail in the vestibule. There are windows flanking the doorway, a blind window on the return to the right, and a window on the return to the left.
The pavilion to the right on King Street West has a base course, raised margins to the windows, an eaves/lintel course, cornice, blocking course, and quoin strip, topped with a piended grey slate roof. The east elevation features a window at the center, while the north elevation has a three-bay design with a door at the center flanked by windows. A two-storey villa abuts to the west, but it is not included in the listing.
The pavilion to the left on William Street is a mirror image of the right pavilion and has a lean-to porch at the doorway.
The interior has not been seen. The villa features twelve-pane sash and case windows, with plate glass in the pavilions. It has a grey slate roof with ashlar coped skews and corniced squared and coursed sandstone stacks at the gables, along with original cans. There are two slate-hung canted dormers on the east side, which have tripartite pilastered windows with a four-pane sash and case glazing pattern.
Local climate
71 King Street West, 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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