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Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley

A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8441 / 55°50'38"N

Longitude: -4.4266 / 4°25'35"W

OS Eastings: 248161

OS Northings: 663870

OS Grid: NS481638

Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4W82

Mapcode Global: WH3P5.ZC8P

Plus Code: 9C7QRHVF+J9

Entry Name: Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley

Listing Name: 25-31 (Odd Nos) Weighhouse Close, New Street

Listing Date: 26 February 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384607

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39062

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Paisley, Weighhouse Close, Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home

ID on this website: 200384607

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley East and Central

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

T G Abercombie, architect. 1900. Free Renaissance. 3-storey
L-plan main block and 2-storey L-plan block attached.
Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Main block 3-bay
symmetrical front to New Street. All windows have roll-
mouldings and 2nd floor raised through eaves, outer windows
with pedimented dormer heads, and ball finials: 12-pane
sashes. Centre windows 1st and 2nd floor project on brackets
and are flanked by Ionic pilasters with frieze and cornice,
and semi-circular dormer head.
Slate roof with moulded straight skews curving up to
square skewputts.
Corniced end stacks. Long west elevation (to Weighhouse
Close) simply detailed. East gable elevation: moulded
segmental-headed doorpiece, windows to left linked vertically
by moulded panels with semi-circular pediment over 2nd.
2-storey block at right angles with 2 flat-headed doors,
and small window between, 12-pane sash window above, raised
through eaves and pedimented. Projecting wing at right with
2 ground floor sashes in moulded surrounds flanking carved
cartouche, and carved and pedimented sash above in gable.

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