252 Main Street, Alexandria is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
252 Main Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
- iron-eave-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 252 Main Street, Alexandria, G83 0NU
- OS grid reference
- NS 390 799
- Coordinates
- 55.98514, -4.58135
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This late 19th-century villa at 252 Main Street, Alexandria, is a two-storey, three-bay building with a rectangular plan. It features stugged squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and dressings, a base course, and a band course. The eaves are advanced with exposed rafters, and there are ashlar transoms.
On the main elevation, there is a door at the center with a tripartite bas-relief sculpture above it. The entrance includes a two-leaf panelled storm door and an inner half-glazed door, with a small window directly under the eaves above. To the outer right, a narrow gabled bay is advanced, featuring tripartite windows with additional windows on the returns. On the outer left at ground level, there is a square projecting window, a blocking course, a tripartite window, and a narrow window on the returns. At the first floor, there is a bipartite window with an ashlar mullion and transom.
The villa has plate glass timber sash and case windows, with leaded stained glass upper lights. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashings, along with ashlar corniced ridge stacks.
The property is enclosed by a low rubble boundary wall topped with ashlar saddleback coping and modern railings.
Local climate
252 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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