Garthland, 38 Argyle Street West, Helensburgh

1. 2-storey, 3-bay villa with Tudor details, single storey service wing to W. Red stugged and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered arrises; ashlar mullions to canted windows; hoodmould to doorpiece and windows at 1st floor; plain bargeboard; stop-chamfered quoins.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: taller gabled bay advanced to left, 2 bays recessed to right with doorpiece in re-entrant angle, 2-leaf panelled doors, plate glass fanlight, half-glazed vestibule door; flat-roofed slate-hung dormer above. Canted window to right with pierced stone parapet with intersecting cusped tracery pattern. Gabled dormerheaded window above breaking eaves. Gabled bay to outer left, canted window at ground, similarly detailed as window to right; window above at 1st floor.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window to outer right, taller gabled bay to left with window at 1st floor. Single storey wing abutting with window to S face and adjoining gabled outbuilding by screen wall. Modern greenhouse abutting screen wall.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: stair window in gabled dormerhead breaking eaves to centre, window to right and left, dormers above. Lower single storey block abutting angle to right right and adjoining service wing to W.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: modern lean-to garage abutting.

Mostly 4-pane sash and case windows; 12-lying pane sash and case to rear elevation. Grey slate roof; ashlar corniced stacks, original cans;

2 canted dormers with piended roof to N.

INTERIOR: not seen.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: semi-circular ashlar coping to rubble wall, ashlar piers with chamfered angles, corniced pier caps.