Bellville, North Main Street, Alexandria is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Villa.
Bellville, North Main Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
- twisted-pinnacle-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NS 389 804
- Coordinates
- 55.99031, -4.58364
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bellville is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical double villa featuring Jacobean details. It is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked red sandstone, with a base course and a moulded string course. The building has chamfered arrises and a shaped Jacobean pediment, along with hoodmoulds and an eaves cornice.
The west (main) elevation showcases symmetrical outer gables, with a projecting square window at the ground floor and a chamfered canted window at the first floor, topped with an ogee lead roof. The shaped gable includes corbelled stacks that are disguised as urn finials. Centrally located at the ground floor are round-headed doors with a roll-moulded surround, flanked by Venetian windows that have blind sidelights. At the first floor, there is a narrow tripartite window in the center. The rear features projecting stair towers, with the left tower having a round-arched window and the right tower being altered.
The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows, with leaded etched glass on the upper panes of the first-floor windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features lead flashings.
The boundary wall is a low stugged and squared rubble wall topped with ashlar coping.
Local climate
Bellville, North Main Street, Alexandria sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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