Archaeology Notes

Event ID 773806

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS38SE 21.00 38933 80676

NS38SE 21.01 NS 38914 80774 House (Lodge: Heather Avenue)

NS38SE 21.02 NS 38931 80546 Lodge (North Main Street)

Argyll Motor Factory: (now a R.N. torpedo factory). Extensive complex, with fine red sandstone frontage. There is a control block projecting from the building line, with pairs of granite columns supporting a pediment filled with sculptured figures. Above this is a clock tower with a copper-covered cupola, flanked by two smaller towers.

Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 16 April 1967.

See NMRS MS/749 (Dunbartonshire, Bonhill/Alexandria parish).

(Location cited as NS 390 807). Motor car factory, built 1907 by the Argyll Motor Co Ltd. A large range of single-storey workshops with a two-storey office block. The centre five bays of the office project are surmounted by a central clock tower with a dome, flanked by two shorter towers. Currently empty, this complex was reckoned one of the largest motor-car factories in Europe when new, but only built cars to 1913.

J R Hume 1976.

Much of site now demolished.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Loch Lomond Factory Outlets [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2010.