Westward, 10 Queen Street East, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Villa.

Westward, 10 Queen Street East, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
seventh-brick-rowan
Grade
C
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
Type
Villa
OS grid reference
NS 297 831
Coordinates
56.01124, -4.733
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Westward is a symmetrical villa from the later 19th century, with a loggia added in 1900. It is two stories high and is surrounded by a loggia on the east and south elevations. The building features squared, stugged, and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, including a base course, raised margins, ashlar mullioned windows, bracketed cills, quoin strips, and bracketed eaves.

On the east elevation, there is an ashlar porch that projects from the center, topped with a parapet adorned with urns on angle pedestals. The porch is partly enclosed by a canted bay on the east side, with a single-storey, lean-to loggia extending from the porch around to the south elevation, supported by paired timber posts (many of which have been replaced by concrete). The loggia is raised to create a round-arched entrance at the porch. The first floor features a bipartite window in the center, flanked by single windows. To the right, there is a lower two-storey, two-bay service wing with a doorway on the right and a bipartite window to the left, along with two windows on the first floor.

The south elevation consists of three bays, with a tall tripartite window at the ground level, complete with a cornice and urns on angle pedestals. Flanking this are bipartite windows, with the left window altered to become a French window. There are three windows on the first floor, and the loggia extends the full width of this elevation, featuring a raised bay with a round-arched entrance in front of the central tripartite window.

The villa mostly has plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and corniced ashlar stacks with moulded cans. Additionally, there is a cast-iron lamp standard in the garden, which has a curved top with foliate mouldings.

Local climate

Westward, 10 Queen 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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