Dalmore Lodge, Lower Rhu Road, Helensburgh

Dalmore Lodge, built in 1873 by William Leiper with an addition in 1904, is a single-storey, asymmetrical, L-plan Scottish Baronial lodge located on Lower Rhu Road in Helensburgh. The building is constructed from snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features roll-moulding surrounds on the doorpiece, window reveals, and eaves course. The lodge has corbelled sections midway on the south and west elevations, with a corbel course stepping over a single window on the west elevation and below a window on the south elevation. The gables are crowstepped, and there are beak skewputts.

On the west (entrance) elevation, there is a gabled porch set on a diagonal line in the re-entrant angle, featuring a semi-circular arched doorway within a squared panel and two-leaf panelled doors. To the left, there is a slightly advanced, lop-sided gabled bay with a window at the centre and a raised ashlar panel above the gablehead. An engaged squat tower is located at the left angle, which has a bipartite window facing northwest and a finialled conical roof. The right side has a blank wall.

The south elevation, facing Rhun Road, includes a gabled bay on the left with a squat bowed window and a finialled semi-conical roof. To the right, there is a window that breaks the eaves, topped with a gabled dormerhead and decorative moulding above the window cornice.

The east elevation features a gabled section with an apex stack. The north elevation returns to the west elevation and has a window at the centre, with a round tower at the right angle. There is a circular tower on the outer left, added in 1904, which has a finialled conical slate roof, a small window facing west, another window facing northwest, and it connects to the west elevation by a single bay line with a shouldered-arch doorway and a boarded door.

The lodge has modern uPVC windows and a green slate roof with coped and corniced stacks, beak skewputts, and ashlar coped skews.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of a green and grey whinstone stepped rubble wall with red sandstone moulded coping. The red sandstone ashlar piers have raised clasping margins at the angles, a billet-moulded cornice, and flat caps, with quadrant walls flanking the entrance.