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6 High Road, Castlehead, Paisley

A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8397 / 55°50'22"N

Longitude: -4.4379 / 4°26'16"W

OS Eastings: 247436

OS Northings: 663409

OS Grid: NS474634

Mapcode National: GBR 3K.5075

Mapcode Global: WH3P5.SHX1

Plus Code: 9C7QRHQ6+VR

Entry Name: 6 High Road, Castlehead, Paisley

Listing Name: 6, High Road, Castlehead

Listing Date: 27 March 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384538

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39013

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Paisley, Castlehead, 6 High Road

ID on this website: 200384538

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley Northwest

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

Later 19th century with later alterations. Two-storey, basement and attic, three-bay symmetrical house. Ashlar front, stugged to basement, with angle margins; rubble to sides and rear with ashlar dressings. Front: band course over basement. Pilastered and corniced doorpiece. Moulded architraves to windows; all two-pane sashes. Eaves cornice. Slate roof with saw-tooth skews and moulded skewputts and corniced end stacks. Simple rear and sides with two doors to basement at rear, and mainly four-pane glazing. Later, canted slatehung dormer at rear. Small single storey projection at rear. Modern fore stair on north gable to first floor. Good cast-iron railings to basement area.

Statement of Interest

The suburb of Castlehead was laid for the development of large villas in the 1860s. The villa at number 6 is shown on the 'General Feuing Plan of the lands of Castlehill - The property of William Wotherspoon Esq, Maxwelltown House, Paisley' dated to 1864.

The villa at number 6 is understood to have been built in 1872 for Mr J Parlane, owner of a printing business in Paisley (information provided by owner in 2024). The house is shown on the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1896.

Listed building record updated in 2024.

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