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 Q17844486

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