View from North-East. Digital image of C 35047.

Description View from North-East. Digital image of C 35047.

Date 21/9/1994

Catalogue Number SC 707666

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 35047

Scope and Content Drumadoon from the north-east, No 17 Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Drumadoon, a large Scottish Arts and Crafts-style villa, was built 1901-3 to designs by architect William Leiper (1839-1916). Built to overlook the Clyde estuary, it presents an impressive façade of red sandstone, half-timbering and harled details. It was converted into a nursing home in the late 20th century. This shows the house with its entrance highlighted by a Gothic-arched doorway decorated with carved figures and animals. The walls are constructed from stone on the lower levels, and are harled and painted above. The attic rooms are lit by dormer windows, a tower with pointed roof is corbelled out by the door, and a further canted tower with leaded windows can also be seen. This house was built for the McAlpine family who owned a Glasgow-based shipping firm. The design shows influences from the architecture of traditional English buildings combined to picturesque effect, with particular reference to the work of architect Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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