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45-47 Causeyside Street, Paisley

A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8422 / 55°50'32"N

Longitude: -4.4239 / 4°25'25"W

OS Eastings: 248322

OS Northings: 663658

OS Grid: NS483636

Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4WZN

Mapcode Global: WH3P6.0FN4

Plus Code: 9C7QRHRG+VC

Entry Name: 45-47 Causeyside Street, Paisley

Listing Name: 45-47 (Odd Nos) Causeyside Street and Johnston Street

Listing Date: 10 February 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384429

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38941

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Paisley, 45-47 Causeyside Street

ID on this website: 200384429

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

T G Abercrombie, architect, 1903. Free style 4-storey
tenement, 6-bays to Causeyside Street, circled corner and
2 bays to Johnston Street. Ashlar with later shops to
ground floor. Causeyside Street elevation: bay to left has
1 window each floor; remaining 5 bays treated symmetrically
with bipartites to centre, those to 2nd and 3rd floors
advanced on corbelled projection with segmental broken
pediment raised through eaves. Flanking bays have single
windows. Canted windows to 1st and 2nd floors of outer bays
and tripartites to 3rd with bracketted eaves cornice and
balustraded parapet flanked by corniced wallhead stacks,
those to right reduced. Circled corner has 3 sashes to
each floor with cill cornice and cornice over to 1st floor,
cills to 2nd and bracketted cill cornice to 3rd from which
rise thin pilasters to corbels supporting exaggerated
bell-cast splayed roof: copper clad Johnston Street
elevation: Cilled bipartites to left bay each floor.
Cilled single windows to right bay, those to 2nd and 3rd
floors corbelled out rising to open pediment paired
through eaves. Glazing overall has small panes to upper
sashes. Swept eaves to both elevations. Slate roof with
corniced stacks.

Statement of Interest

This corner tenement is well detailed and is a significant addition to the streetscape.

Previous reference to Dean of Guild Drawings relate to HBNUM 38940. Removed from this list description, 2011.

Thomas Graham Abercrombie (1862-1926) was a local Paisley arcgitect who designed a large number of buildings in the town, including private houses, churches and public buildings.

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