Monument To Henry Bell, Esplanade, Clyde Street West, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. Monument.
Monument To Henry Bell, Esplanade, Clyde Street West, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- scarred-railing-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument To Henry Bell, Esplanade, Clyde Street West, Helensburgh, G84 8AW
- OS grid reference
- NS 293 823
- Coordinates
- 56.0034, -4.7378
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The monument to Henry Bell, located on the Esplanade at Clyde Street West in Helensburgh, was erected in 1872. It is a red sandstone obelisk that features an inscription commemorating Henry Bell as the first person in Great Britain to successfully apply steam power for navigation. The inscription notes that he was born in Linlithgow in 1766 and died in Helensburgh in 1830.
Local climate
Monument To Henry Bell, Esplanade, Clyde 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Bellot Memorial
- 2 Bellamy Monument and Headstone in Churchyard, About 15 Metres South South East of North Gate to Bell Lane, Church of St Peter and St Paul
- 3 Bell Headstone Approximately 10 Yards South-West of Church of St Mary
- 4 Flywheel And Anvil, East Esplanade, East Clyde Street, Helensburgh
- 5 Group of Four Bell Monuments in Churchyard West of North West Angle of Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- La Scala Cinema, 8 James Street, Helensburgh
- 36 Clyde Street West, Helensburgh
- Clydesdale Bank, 10, 12 James Street, Helensburgh
- Congregational Church, Princes Street West, Helensburgh
- 22 John Street, Helensburgh
- National Bank Of Scotland, 24 West Clyde Street, Helensburgh
- 24 John Street, Helensburgh
- Post Office, 18 Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh
- 26 John Street, Helensburgh
- 76 West Princes Street, Helensburgh