Lodge, Cairndhu House, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh

William Leiper, 1871. Single storey and attic, L-plan Scots

Renaissance style lodge. Cream squared and coursed sandstone, ashlar dressings. Roll-moulded cill course; chamfered reveals with roll-moulding; shaped and moulded gables with ball finials; corbel course.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance porch in re-entrant angle with round-headed doorway set in squared panel, boarded door; corbelled and crenellated parapet with ball finial surmounting angle. Blank wall to right with corbel course. Gabled bay to left with kneelers and ball finials; squat bow to outer left with raised blank ashlar panel to centre, windows flanking, eaves course and finialled half-conical roof. Raised blank ashlar panel to right.

Small gablehead window with open semi-circular headed pediment cradling finial with cartouche in tympanum.

S ELEVATION: chamfered angles corbelled to square below corbel course. Corbelled gablehead stepped over bipartite window to centre; raised blank ashlar panel above. Single storey flat-roofed modern addition abutting to outer right (E).

E ELEVATION: shaped gable with small gablehead window.

N ELEVATION: window to centre, advanced full-height chimney wall to right with gablet below rendered wallhead stack.

Modern uPVC glazing. Grey/green slates; polygonal sandstone corniced stack to centre, original cans.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: cream ashlar clustered columnar piers (quatrefoil in section), surmounted by banded pyramids raised on small ashlar balls. Snecked red sandstone, ashlar coped quadrant walls flanked with stepped boundary wall.