Ardenlee, 304 Main Street, Alexandria is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. House.
Ardenlee, 304 Main Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
- open-chamber-hazel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 390 797
- Coordinates
- 55.98384, -4.58173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardenlee is a mid to later 19th century, two-storey, three-bay cottage villa located at 304 Main Street, Alexandria. The building features painted stucco with painted margins and dressings, along with a base course and channelled quoins.
The main elevation has a gabled bay that is advanced at the centre, featuring a bipartite basket-arched window and a round-headed window in the gable above. There is a castellated porch in the re-entrant angle supported by corner columns. The outer bays at ground level also have bipartite basket-arched windows, while gabled round-headed dormers are present above. The ground floor is fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the first floor has four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey tiles and includes lead flashings and low coped ridge stacks.
The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of painted ashlar gatepiers with stop-chamfered arrises and corniced castellated caps. The low boundary wall is topped with ashlar slab coping.
Local climate
Ardenlee, 304 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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