Ardfern, 3 Easterhill Road, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Ardfern, 3 Easterhill Road, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- half-merlon-thrush
- Grade
- B
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- Ardfern, 3 Easterhill Road, Helensburgh, G84 9JE
- OS grid reference
- NS 305 831
- Coordinates
- 56.01103, -4.71995
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardfern is a 2-storey, asymmetrical Scottish Arts and Crafts villa built in 1907 by Mitchell and Whitelaw. The exterior is harled and painted, featuring cream sandstone ashlar details and dressings. A corbel course runs between the ground and first floors, and the eaves are deep and swept overhanging.
On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a basket-arched doorway located off-centre to the left. This doorway has stop-chamfered arrises and a roll-moulded surround, leading to a half-glazed boarded door. Above this entrance, a window at the first floor features an ashlar roll-moulded surround that is cusped at the windowhead. To the right, a taller shaped gable bay is advanced, with a canted ashlar window at the ground level that is partly recessed between piers supporting a corbelled upper storey. There is also a shallow canted oriel window at the first floor. A recessed bay to the right includes a window at the ground level and a small window at the first floor.
The southwest elevation features a French window at the ground level in the centre, with a window above that breaks the eaves and has a flat roof. To the outer right, there is a shallow canted oriel window above breaking the eaves with a half-piend roof. A full-height bowed projection on the outer left breaks the eaves, with cream sandstone at the ground level and harled at the first floor. This elevation has three windows at both the ground and first floors.
On the southeast elevation, there is a door located to the outer left, with a modern conservatory abutting it. A window is positioned to the outer right at the ground level, and there is a window breaking the eaves at the first floor in the centre, along with a small window to the outer left. The villa features small-pane windows with top hoppers, a grey-green slate roof, harled coped stacks, and shaped features on the northwest elevation with ashlar coped skews and large scrolled skewputts. The original rainwater goods are still in place.
Local climate
Ardfern, 3 Easterhill Road, 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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- Radon risk assessment
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