Toll House, Sinclair Street, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1980. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Toll House, Sinclair Street, Helensburgh

WRENN ID
winter-gutter-dock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1980
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 302 837
Coordinates
56.01635, -4.7241
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Toll House on Sinclair Street in Helensburgh is an early 19th-century single-storey, three-bay cottage. It is constructed from cream and pink sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring raised margins and overhanging eaves.

On the east elevation facing Sinclair Street, there is a modern half-glazed door at the center, with enlarged windows on either side. The south elevation has two widely spaced windows. The north elevation is blank.

The cottage has replacement timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane lower sashes and 8-pane upper sashes on the south elevation, and 12-pane windows on the east elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, with an ashlar coped stack at the center.

Local climate

Toll House, Sinclair Street, 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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