Redcote, 23 Henry Bell Street, Helensburgh

Redcote is a 2-storey, asymmetrical, L-plan villa built in 1881 by T L Watson, designed in the Shavian/Old English Arts and Crafts style. The exterior features stugged, snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings and mock half-timbering on the gableheads. There is a base course, chamfered arrises, and ashlar mullions on the ground floor windows, along with overhanging bracketed eaves.

On the southeast elevation, there is a gabled entrance bay to the left, which includes a full-width lean-to timber porch supported by timber posts and a balustrade. Part of the porch is glazed in as a conservatory with lead-pane glazing and terrazzo tiles, featuring a half-glazed door and a grey/green and red tiled roof. An off-centre right round-arched doorway has 2-leaf panelled doors and a half-glazed vestibule door. Above this, a slightly advanced chimney wall features a window to the right on the first floor, with half-timbering above and a small attic window to the right, topped by an apex stack. To the right, there is a single storey and attic bay with a bipartite window at ground level and a 2-light gabled dormer window supported on brackets that breaks the eaves above, also with half-timbering on the gablehead. A lower single storey and attic lean-to wing is recessed to the outer right, blank at ground level, with corbelled half-timbering and small windows in the gablehead above.

The southwest elevation features a canted ashlar window to the left, with a corbelled half-timber canted window above it, topped by a polygonal tiled roof with a finial. To the right, there is a tripartite window at ground level and a 3-light window above, also supported on brackets and featuring a finial on the roof.

The villa mostly has plate glass sash and case windows, a red tiled roof, rendered corniced stacks, and original rainwater goods. The interior has not been seen. Additionally, there is a rectangular-plan conservatory abutting the northwest angle of the building.