Description

T G Abercrombie, 1895-8 as Paisley Grammer School and W B Barbour Academy; 1960's additions retain symmetry, but main block is otherwise little-altered. Big 2-storey block with attics, quadrangular around central hall; tripartite elevation, flanking ranges have gables to front; collegiate gothic with renaissance details, mostly cross-windows

(3-light in right hand gable and to rear), recessed arched and termined by block cornices. Brick base; painted concrete panels to bays, pediment over entrance bay. Stone-cleaned horizontals dividing storeys; croncrete cill courses.

Red ashlar, slate roofs; original glazing. Flanking additions have fully-glazed staircase bays linking old block and new. Low unrailed boundary wall to street, pinnacled square gatepiers.

Also JANITOR'S LODGE by James Steel Maitland; unaltered, small, brick base, rendered, slate roof, glazed corner differentiated, having brick exposed. Side entrances in windows.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17844473

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings