32-36 John Street, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. 1 related planning application.
32-36 John Street, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- peeling-rotunda-frost
- 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
- Address
- 32-36 John Street, Helensburgh, G84 8XL
- OS grid reference
- NS 293 825
- Coordinates
- 56.00514, -4.73868
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38-44 John Street in Helensburgh is a two-storey and attic tenement built in 1873. It features a symmetrical design with eight bays, consisting of two semi-detached four-bay blocks. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar stone. Notable architectural details include raised margins, pediments with finials above the first-floor windows, and ashlar mullioned windows.
On the west elevation facing John Street, the block to the right, numbered 32-36, has a central pend with doorways on either side, although the doorway on the left has been blocked and converted into a window. There are bipartite windows flanking the pend, with additional windows off-centre to the right and left on the first floor, as well as bipartite windows in the outer bays. The left block, numbered 38-44, mirrors this design, with doorways flanking a blocked pend and a window on the right at ground level where the mullion has been removed.
The north side elevation is gabled with an apex stack, while the south side elevation is also gabled, featuring a window in the centre on the first floor and an apex stack. The building showcases a variety of glazing patterns, including some four-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are corniced rendered stacks with moulded cans that have a fret pattern at the base. Each block has a wallhead stack with a moulded base, and the stack on the right has the date inscribed at its base. Additionally, there are two gabled slate-hung dormers located between the wallhead stacks and at the outer right and left, with a fleuron motif on the gableheads, although this motif is missing from the dormer on the off-centre left.
Local climate
32-36 John Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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