5 West Argyle Street, Helensburgh is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Tenement block. 1 related planning application.
5 West Argyle Street, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pedestal-plover
- 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
- Tenement block
- Address
- 5 West Argyle Street, Helensburgh, G84 8UU
- OS grid reference
- NS 296 825
- Coordinates
- 56.0059, -4.73292
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 West Argyle Street in Helensburgh is a three-storey, four-bay tenement block built in 1903 by T and J Low, showcasing the Glasgow style. The building is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with rustication at the ground level. It features cill courses, an eaves course, and corniced windows.
The north elevation facing Argyle Street has a round-arched doorway at the center, which includes a recessed half-glazed door, a hoodmould, a keystone, and a segmental-arched cornice above the doorway and the flanking windows. There are two additional windows above on the first and second floors, with a round-arched pediment that breaks the eaves. A date stone panel is set into the pediment, adorned with a stepped hoodmould and a keystone. Wallhead stacks are positioned on either side of the pediment. The outer bays feature full-height canted windows, corniced at the ground and first floors.
The building primarily has sash and case windows, with plate glass in the lower sashes and small panes in the upper sashes. The roof is modern and tiled, with gable stacks.
Local climate
5 West Argyle 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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