76 West Princes Street, Helensburgh

Robert Wemyss, 1896. 3-storey, near symmetrical Art and Crafts

tenement on corner site with taller 2-bay corner block, modern shops and licensed premises at ground. Harled with red sandstone ashlar and brick dressings and detailing. Cornice at ground floor; cill course; overhanging-eaves; ashlar mullions to canted windows; sandstone architraves to windows; bracketted cills to 1st floor.

S (PRINCES STREET) ELEVATION: 2-storey circular corner tower to outer left (SW), corbelled at 1st floor, 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floors, windows to centre set in ashlar panel, brick apron to 2nd floor window with carved ashlar panel with masque motif. Mock half-timbering detail below eaves; conical slate roof with finial. Bay to right with 1st and 2nd floor windows linked in ashlar panel, 2nd floor window with round-headed pediement and decorated tympanum breaking into gableheead; corbelled and conriced ashlar pilaster-strip with ball finial to right at 2nd floor. 2 windows off-centre right at 1st and 2nd floors. Taller gabled bay to outer right with full-height canted oriel, ashlar and brick panel between windows, brick string course to gablehead with carved ashlar panel to centre.

W (JAMES STREET) ELEVATION: shouldered gable with apex stack to left of corner tower, ashlar coped skews, block skewputts and corniced stack; skew to left interruptedby corbelled pilaster strip (as above) with scrolled skewputt flanking to left. Windows at 1st and 2nd floors in round-arched panel with mannered scrolled pediment above 2nd floor window. Gabled bay off-centre left detailed as Princes Street, window at 1st and 2nd floors flanking set in ashlar panel with brick detail between; narrow window at 1st and 2nd floors to far right.

Mostly PVC replacement windows with some plate glass sash and case windows and 3-pane (vertically divided) to lower sash and multi-pane upper. Tiled roof, corniced stacks.