General view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, from South.

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

Date 3/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 1943754

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DB 32

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. South elevation'. Detail of entrance front of Cairndhu, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Cairndhu, a two-storeyed 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 tower with its conical roof crowned by a lantern. A bipartite window on the ground floor is topped by a balustrade. Above this a further window is topped by arched windows and a finialled gable. A stair-tower links the large tower to the main building. Above further bipartite windows (right) with pilastered surrounds, is a dormer window with ball finials on the pediment. 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/11

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