Lodge, Levenford House, Helenslee Road, Dumbarton

J T Rochead, architect of gate lodge, circa 1853; set above

steep slope; rectangular-plan stable block built below, circa

1865, 2 joined 1903 by linking bay, John Burnet and Son,

architects. Scottish Baronial with crowstepped gables and

dummy gun ports; squared, stugged and snecked rubble. Lodge

is square-plan, single storey and attic, with basement to

south and to east, and conical-roofed stair turret rising

from below basement level at south east angle; 2-bay north

elevation, round-headed door in gabled shallow porch,

tripartite to left below single window in gabled dormer head:

Apex stacks with diamond flues. Former stables are single

storey and attic with gabled dormers long east wall with 4

ventilators, stack (3 diamond flues) above wall head gables:

2 wide modern sliding doors to west wall, lintelled garage

opening in north gable, and heavy stone apex finial. Linking

bay joins to basement level of lodge.