East Gables, 5 Rowallan Street, Helensburgh

A N Paterson, 1895. Pair of 2-storey L-plan semi-detached L-plan Scottish Arts and Crafts villas. Harled, with red sandstone dressings. Sandstone margins to windows to S with ashlar mullions to bipartite and canted windows; sandstone cills and lintels elsewhere; crowstep gable. EAST GABLES NO 5:

E (ENTRANCE/ROWALLAN STREET) ELEVATION: 4 bays; architraved doorpiece off-centre left, chamfered and roll-moulded arris, cornice, similarly detailed window above with apron resting on cornice of doorpiece; panelled fanlit door (leaded glazing to fanlight and upper panels of door), deep-set vestibule door. Slightly recessed bay to outer left with wallhead stack corbelled at 1st floor set in re-entrant angle, window to left at ground. Bipartite mullioned and transomed stair window to right, segmental-arch to each light with leaded and stained glass; narrow window below. Window to outer right at ground and 1st floor.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 2-storey crowstepped gable to outer right, corbelled canted oriel supported on buttresses, roll-moulded architrave with label-stop to each window, piended slate roof. Single storey and attic wing to left with bipartite window to ground and flat-roofed tripartite slightly canted dormer above.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 window at ground, bipartite window to 1st floor. Single storey wing to left, door on W face.

INTERIOR: original chimneypieces and timber balustraded stairs.

WEST GABLES NO 3:

Mirror image of East Gables with full-height canted window to gabled bay to S elevation. W (entrance) elevation; modern window slapping to outer left at ground, modern lean-to conservatory to outer right.

Interior, not seen.

Mostly sash and case windows plate glass to lower sashes and 6-pane to upper sashes. Grey slate roof, beak skewputts, ashlar coped mutual stack to centre and to E and W elevations.