General view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, from north.

Description General view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, from north.

Date 3/1965

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1943010

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DB 27

Scope and Content Scottish National Buildings Record. Written on verso of the mounted print: 'Shire: Dunbartonshire. Place: Helensburgh. Building: Cairndhu Hotel. Photographer: G.N. Date: March 1965. North elevation'. View from north of Cairndhu, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Cairndhu, a two-storeyed asymmetrical villa, was built in 1871 to designs by architect William Leiper (1839-1916), the service wing was extended in 1902. The interior was decorated by artist Daniel Cottier (1838-91), and includes Japanese-style painted ceilings and fine stained glass panels. It was converted to a hotel in 1956, and a residential home in 1984. This shows the rear of the house with its arched stair window (centre) flanked by gables, that on the left having a group of tall chimney-stacks. The half-timbered section (right) resting on wooden brackets on stone corbels was added in 1902, as were the service wings below the stair window. A fire escape reflects the building's use as a hotel. William Leiper began working in Helensburgh in 1870 after moving there from Glasgow. He worked on many fine buildings, ecclesiastical, commercial and domestic, but is best remembered for the remarkable Venetian façade of Templeton's carpet factory in Glasgow, built in 1889. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference MW/BR/HEL/6

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