Westways, 36 Argyle Street West, Helensburgh

Westways, located at 36 Argyle Street West in Helensburgh, is a villa built in 1857, with a late 19th century wing added to the west. This two-storey, three-bay structure features Tudor details and has single-storey wings on either side. It is constructed from red stugged and snecked sandstone, accented with ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, chamfered arrises, ashlar mullions on the canted windows, hoodmoulds over the doorpiece and first-floor windows, a plain bargeboard, and stop-chamfered quoins.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a taller gabled bay that projects to the right, with two recessed bays to the left. The entrance features a two-leaf boarded door with a plate glass fanlight and a half-glazed vestibule door. To the left, there is a canted window topped with a pierced stone parapet that has an intersecting cusped tracery pattern. Above this, a gabled dormer window breaks the eaves. The outer right gabled bay has a canted window at ground level, similar in detail to the one on the left, with a window above on the first floor. A recessed wing on the outer left has a window facing south.

On the west side elevation, there is a door at the center and a window on the first floor. The north rear elevation features a stair window in a gabled dormer head that breaks the eaves at the center, with additional windows to the right and left, and dormers above. A slightly advanced wing on the right has a window facing north, while a lower single-storey block abuts the left angle and connects to a service wing on the east.

The east side elevation has a window on the outer left and a taller gabled bay on the right with a first-floor window. There is a single-storey service wing attached, which has a window on its south face and is joined by a screen wall to the garage on the right.

The villa primarily features four-pane sash and case windows, with twelve-lying-pane sash and case windows on the rear elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar corniced stacks (rendered on the east) with original cans, along with a rooflight on the south side and two canted dormers with piended roofs on the north. Inside, there is a curved stair with iron balusters, corniced ceilings, and a black marble chimneypiece (now painted) in the dining room.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a rubble wall topped with semi-circular ashlar coping, ashlar piers with chamfered angles, and corniced pier caps.