Gateway And Garden Walls, Levenford House, Helenslee Road, Dumbarton is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 March 1971. Garden wall, gateway.

Gateway And Garden Walls, Levenford House, Helenslee Road, Dumbarton

WRENN ID
idle-pilaster-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Dunbartonshire
Constituency
West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 March 1971
Type
Garden wall, gateway
OS grid reference
NS 390 754
Coordinates
55.94492, -4.57847
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gateway and garden walls at Levenford House on Helenslee Road in Dumbarton were designed by architect J T Rochead and built around 1853. The structure features a round-arched and rope-moulded gateway leading to West Bridgend, which is flanked by blind slits and conical-roofed round turrets. The coping is raised over a central panel, and there are three wooden gates. The boundary wall to West Bridgend is crenellated and was extended north and south later in the century. The north and south garden walls are stepped to follow the slope of the land, and the gateway to Helenslee Road includes dummy gun ports but lacks gatepiers. All elements are constructed from squared rubble with ashlar dressings.

Local climate

Gateway And Garden Walls, Levenford House, Helenslee Road, 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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