Alexandria House, Upper Smollett Street, Alexandria is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Alexandria House, Upper Smollett Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
- salt-glass-spindle
- 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
- Alexandria House, Upper Smollett Street, Alexandria, G83 0LN
- OS grid reference
- NS 387 798
- Coordinates
- 55.98458, -4.58551
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alexandria House is a villa built in the later 19th century, featuring two storeys and a rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked red sandstone, complemented by contrasting grey ashlar dressings and quoins. It has a base course and advanced bracketed eaves.
On the main elevation, there is an ashlar doorpiece with a consoled blind balcony above. The entrance includes a round-headed door and a half-glazed round-headed window on the first floor. The design is symmetrical, with flanking bays that feature full-height ashlar windows that are slightly advanced. The ground floor has tripartite basket-arched windows, while the first floor has round-arched windows, with a piend roof that breaks the eaves above and a finial. There is also a narrow ashlar bay on the outer right.
The side elevation consists of three bays with three windows symmetrically arranged on the first floor. There is a squared window projection at the ground outer left and a window to the outer right at ground level.
The windows are plate glass timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a piend and platformed design, along with lead flashings. There is a corniced ashlar wallhead stack with square tapered cans, and a rendered stack to the left.
Local climate
Alexandria House, Upper Smollett 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 — 3 applications
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