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Alexandria, North Main Street, Argyll Motor Car Factory, Lodge

Gate Lodge (20th Century)

Site Name Alexandria, North Main Street, Argyll Motor Car Factory, Lodge

Classification Gate Lodge (20th Century)

Canmore ID 263918

Site Number NS38SE 21.02

NGR NS 38931 80546

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/263918

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  • Council West Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Bonhill (West Dunbartonshire)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

Site Management (21 October 2008)

LODGE: single storey, L-plan lodge house. Red sandstone, base course. 2 half glazed doors to left, piend-roofed block to right, boarded door and window.2-storey and attic Baroque, richly detailed industrial and office range with symmetrical wings. Long rectangular-plan. Red sandstone ashlar with pink ashlar dressings, marble columns. Base course, deep entablature with mutuled cornice; ashlar parapet over centre block with raised die, large ball finials; pierced balustraded parapet over wings. (Historic Scotland)

This complex was reckoned one of the largest motor-car factories in Europe when new, but only built cars to 1913. Latterly used as a Royal Naval Torpedo Factory. (J Hume, RCAHMS)

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