Lodge, Keil School, Helenslee Road, Kirktonhill, Dumbarton is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 January 1984. Lodge, gatepiers. 2 related planning applications.
Lodge, Keil School, Helenslee Road, Kirktonhill, Dumbarton
- WRENN ID
- salt-kitchen-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1984
- Type
- Lodge, gatepiers
- OS grid reference
- NS 388 752
- Coordinates
- 55.94305, -4.58239
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge at Keil School on Helenslee Road in Kirktonhill, Dumbarton, was likely designed by architect John Honeyman and built around 1865. It is a symmetrical, single-storey structure with three bays, constructed from stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The lodge features a central gabled porch with a panelled two-leaf door, which has a monogram (PHD) above it, and is flanked by banded pilasters. The windows are plate glass sashes, and the building has channelled angle pilasters, a cill band, and an eaves/lintel band. The projecting eaves lead to a piended slate roof that includes a central corniced and rendered stack.
The entrance is marked by corniced, square, polished ashlar gatepiers that are connected by low quadrant walls and a wooden railing topped with slate. The gatepiers flanking the main drive have ball finials and may date from the same period as the original house. The entrance is completed with cast-iron gates.
Local climate
Lodge, Keil School, Helenslee Road, Kirktonhill, Dumbarton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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