Victoria Infirmary, Granville Street, Helensburgh

The Victoria Infirmary, located on Granville Street in Helensburgh, was designed by William Leiper in 1895, with additions made in 1899. This T-plan hospital features a two-storey central block flanked by single-storey wings. It is constructed from snecked red sandstone ashlar and stugged snecked cream sandstone, with a base course and ashlar mullioned windows that have chamfered arrises.

The south entrance elevation consists of a six-bay central block. An off-centre left pilastered doorcase features a pedimented panel above, a round-arched doorway with a roll-moulded surround and keystone, and two-leaf boarded doors with decorative iron hinges. Above the doorway, there are twin round-arched lights framed by roll-moulded surrounds. To the right, there is a transomed window, and two first-floor windows are separated by a carved panel that displays the date 1895. The building has a tall French roof topped with a finial at the apex. Engaged octagonal towers flank the central bays, each containing three transomed windows at the ground level, a cornice, and a roll-moulded architrave framing each bay at the first floor, topped with a moulded cornice and an attenuated bell-cast finialled roof. The single-storey outer bays each have a bipartite window and a piended roof, with the left bay featuring a dormer window behind a pyramidal finialled roof. The single-storey, five-bay wings, which were formerly male and female wards, are recessed to the right and left, each with a window in every bay, and the end bay has been converted into a doorway. The canted return elevations include a bipartite window in the centre bay and polygonal roofs.

The north rear elevation has a two-storey service wing at the centre, which was raised from a single storey in 1899, and features tile-hanging on the first floor. There are modern red brick additions and various other alterations to the rear elevation.

The windows are sash and case, with plate glass in the lower sashes and multi-pane in the upper sashes. The roof is covered with green slate and red ridge tiles, with lead finials and tall cream sandstone corniced end stacks that have red ashlar dressings on the central block. Inside, there is a timber balustraded screen that divides the hall from the stairs in the central block, which features a half-turn with a landing stair and a timber balustrade.