All very different in their historical chapters but agree with you, theres something very appealing about them! While plans have been lodged for a housing development in 2016, Helenslee House, which originally belonged to the shipbuilding family Dennys of Dumbarton, has remained untouched. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Built in classic Baronial style (complete with pointy wizard hat towers), my favourite of the architecture styles on show in this period, its head-spinning labyrinthine layout is something to behold. then look at the adjoining roof its marley tiles,ON A LISTED BUILDING are you kidding me, then you walk round the building and look at the cast water drops some are missing others are broken and water from roof coes through the entries to cast and in some places there are no water rhones, so the consequences of this is ,two fold the stone gets saturated, and as the front of the building has a lower level due to construction at the front the ground gets saturated, in turn the foundation stones gets saturated, thats what happens when you give a property like this to someone with no building background, mind you the council are delighted its of there hands now,,its was run as a home for unmarried mothers for a while , bearing in mind its a a list building, i was kinda shocked and stunned to find that a internal stone staircase had been removed and replaced by a fabulous modern steel fire escape WOW what clown allowed that, , outside entrance is a portico, where the 3 keystanes all had movement due to shrubs growing there gaps as wide as 40mm were apparent yet no one bothered, i called council they dint want to know it was up to lease holder ,i asked if they visited the building annually to inspect it, no comment after that no one would speak to me, so i called listed building told them what i had seen inside and out, the fire escape in steel , never knew about was the reply, marly majors on roof unaware of it, burst downpipes and damage underground , and the( voosars) i.e. Rent is as low as 250 a month for a one-bed flat within easy reach of Glasgow and one flat on the site sold for just 7,000 at auction. Abandoned Scotland - Facebook I remember being taken to a party in the dining room where there were men. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. The council continues to try and buy up all of the properties so the relic of the area's past can be demolished. Second Scots teaching union to ballot members on 'paltry' new pay offer. Carolinas sister Senga Rendall, 56, who now lives in Yeovil, Somerset, went to Fornethy when she was aged five in 1969. Not so long ago the former kids television presenter was forced to deny he was Banksy.
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