Niagra, 308 Main Street, Alexandris is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Villa.
Niagra, 308 Main Street, Alexandris
- WRENN ID
- far-oriel-yarrow
- Grade
- C
- 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 390 797
- Coordinates
- 55.98332, -4.58208
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Niagra is a late 19th-century, two-storey villa with a rectangular plan, located at 308 Main Street in Alexandris. The building is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features a base course, advanced eaves, and chamfered arrises.
The main elevation has a centrally located shoulder-arched door with a moulded surround and a window above it. To the right, there is a full-height canted window, a blocking course, and a round-arched window in the gable head. The left side of the ground floor has a bipartite window, with a matching bipartite window above it, and a bull's eye window in the gable head above. The gable features bargeboarding that breaks the eaves.
The villa has uPVC windows, a grey slate roof, and coped sandstone ridge stacks. Additionally, there is a low red sandstone boundary wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
Niagra, 308 Main Street, Alexandris 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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