62, 64, 66 Princes Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
62, 64, 66 Princes Street West, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- silver-pilaster-spring
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 62, 64, 66 Princes Street West, Helensburgh, G84 8UQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 294 824
- Coordinates
- 56.00464, -4.73646
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
62, 64, and 66 Princes Street West in Helensburgh is a three-storey, three-bay tenement building designed by Robert Wemyss in 1896, featuring Jacobean details and a shop at the ground floor. The structure is made of stugged, snecked red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Architectural elements include a cornice at the ground floor, a string course, a bracketed eaves course, chamfered arrises, round-arched windows on the second floor, ashlar mullioned windows, and quoins strips.
On the south elevation facing Princes Street, there is a modern shop at the ground level. The first and second floors have an off-centre window to the right, with a wallhead stack to the left that has a pilaster strip corbelled from the first floor and a dentilled cornice. To the outer right, there is a full-height canted oriel window, with dentilled cills on the second-floor windows and a coped parapet. The outer left features a taller gabled bay with similarly detailed windows, and there is a decorated panel with cusped carving at the apex of the gablehead.
The building has sash and case windows, with plate glass in the lower sashes and multi-pane upper sashes, though some windows have been replaced. The roof is covered with grey-green slate, featuring skewblocks at the gable, corniced sandstone stacks, and original cans.
Local climate
62, 64, 66 Princes Street West, 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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