Redcote, 23 Henry Bell Street, Helensburgh

T L Watson, 1881. 2-storey, asymmetrical, L-plan Shavian/Old English Arts and Crafts style villa. Stugged, snecked red sandstone, ashlar dressings, mock half-timbering to gableheads. Base course; chamfered arrises; ashlar mullions to ground floor windows; overhanging bracketted eaves.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled entrance bay to left with full-width lean-to timber porch, timber posts, balustrade, part to left glazed-in as conservatory with lead-pane glazing, terrazzo tiles, half-glazed door, grey/green and red tiled roof. Round-arched doorway off-centre right, 2-leaf panelled doors, half-glazed vestibule door. Slightly advanced chimney wall to centre above, window to right at 1st floor, half-timbering above with small attic window to right, apex stack. Single storey and attic, single bay to right, bipartite window at ground, 2-light gabled dormer window supported on brackets breaking eaves above, half-timbering to gablehead. Lower single storey and attic lean-to wing recessed to outer right. Blank at ground, corbelled above with half-timbering and small windows to gablehead.

SW ELEVATION: canted ashlar window to left, corbelled to half-timber canted window above, polygonal tiled roof, finial. Tripartite window to right at ground, 3-light window supported on brackets breaking eaves above, finial to roof.

Mostly plate glass sash and case windows. Red tiled roof, rendered corniced stacks, original rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen.

CONSERVATORY: rectangular-plan conservatory abutting NW angle.