Lodge, Dalmore, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh

This building is a lodge located on Rhu Road Lower in Helensburgh, designed by William Leiper in 1893. It is a single-storey, asymmetrical L-plan structure in the Scottish Baronial style, constructed from snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The entrance features a roll-moulding surround to the doorpiece and stop-chamfered arrises to the windows, which also have roll-moulding. The eaves are corbelled, and there are crowstepped gables on the north and west sides.

On the south elevation, there is an engaged circular tower in the re-entrant angle, which has a slightly advanced gable and doorway with skew detailing. The semi-circular arched doorway is set in a squared panel and features two-leaf panelled doors, with a floreate panel above the gablehead and a blank vesica at the center. The tower has a conical roof with a finial. To the right, there is a lop-sided gabled bay topped with an ashlar thistle finial, a central window, and a pilastered cartouche with cherubs above, all set in a slightly advanced corniced panel. A chamfered angle to the right has a window in the center, and there is a projecting wing to the left of the doorpiece with a small window on the south elevation.

The west elevation includes a gabled bay with an off-set course below the gablehead, featuring a canted window at the center with ashlar saw tooth coping on the roof. The windows have roll-moulded hoodmoulds with carved head label stops, and there is a roll-moulded cill course.

On the north elevation, there is a gabled bay on the outer left with an apex stack, and a crenellated elevation to the right, which has a modern half-glazed porch abutting it. The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with green slate and red ridge tiles, and features ashlar coped skews, beak skewputts, corniced sandstone stacks, and original rainwater goods.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a green and grey whinstone stepped rubble wall, which has been infilled with new concrete blocks, topped with red sandstone moulded coping. The gatepiers are made of red sandstone ashlar with corniced caps and ball finials.