Drummillig House, 146 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh

A N Paterson, 1909, later wing to N. 2-storey, asymmetrical L-plan Arts and Crafts villa. Harled with painted ashlar dressings.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: canted porch in re-entrant angle, bell-cast roof, bracketted swept eaves, segmental-arched doorway, half-glazed boarded door, bipartite windows with arched lights on return to right and left, cill course, red tiled porch, glazed vestibule door. Stepped 4-light Elizabethan stair window in angle of returning wing to right, lead-pane glazing with stained glass. Slightly advnaced crow stepped gable to outer right, advanced chamney wall to centre with corniced stepped stack to apex, window to left at ground with roll-moulded architrave. Wing advanced to left of porch; 2 windows at ground, 3 at 1st floor. Lower 2-storey wing to outer left, 3 windows at ground, 2 at 1st floor. Return to N with gambrel roof, segmental-arched doorway off-centre right, tripartite window to left, doorway to outer right, flat-roofed dormer above.

S ELEVATION: full-height, flat-roofed canted window to outer left. Lop-sided gable bay to right with apex stack, window at ground and 1st floor.

E (GARDEN) ELEVATION: canted window to left with piended slate roof; single storey sun-lounge to right with plate glass. Pair canted oriels to centre at 1st floor with mutual piended roof, overhanging swept eaves supported on timber brackets, bipartite windows flanking.

N (ELEVATION: deep canted window off-centre right. Later 2-storey wing projecting to N, harled, red tiled roof.

INTERIOR: original chimneypieces; coved ceiling to drawings-room; walnut stair and gallery to 1st floor.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GARAGES ENCLOSING FORE-COURT:

rectangular-plan doubel garages with gambrel roof, flanked by harled wall with red brick coping and 2 semi-circular arched gateways with brick keystones and iron gates enclosing forecourt to entrance front.