30 High Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Commercial premises. 4 related planning applications.
30 High Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- quartered-bronze-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- 30 High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 481 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84532, -4.42659
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30 High Street in Paisley is a classical commercial building dating from around 1800. It stands three stories high with an attic and features a three-bay design constructed from ashlar stone. The ground floor has been modernized for shops.
On the first and second floors, giant Tuscan pilasters extend up through the facade, flanking outer bipartite sash windows and a central sash window, all adorned with incised "Greek" ornamentation in pediment shapes. There are also continuous cill courses on both floors, which have incised ornamentation below them.
The building has three dormers that rise from the eaves cornice and break through a balustrade, with the outer pair being bipartite and featuring incised ornament and pediments. The roof is slate, topped with corniced stacks.
Local climate
30 High Street, Paisley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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