Imperial Hotel, 12 Clyde Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.

Imperial Hotel, 12 Clyde Street West, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
errant-eave-yew
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
Type
Hotel
Address
Imperial Hotel, 12 Clyde Street West, Helensburgh, G84 8SQ
OS grid reference
NS 295 822
Coordinates
56.00318, -4.73485
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Imperial Hotel, located at 12 Clyde Street West in Helensburgh, is an earlier 19th-century building. It is a three-storey and attic hotel with four bays, featuring a rendered and painted exterior. The design includes base and cill courses, raised margins, an eaves and lintel course, a cornice, and long and short quoins.

On the south elevation facing Clyde Street, the ground floor has been modernised, with a doorway on the outer left and three windows to the right. The first and second floors each have four symmetrically arranged windows.

The hotel has uPVC replacement windows and a grey slate roof. There is a slate-hung gabled dormer in the centre with a round-headed light, and canted dormers on either side, each topped with a gablet over the central light. A corniced stack is located at the right end of the building.

Local climate

Imperial Hotel, 12 Clyde Street West, 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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