20-22 Back Sneddon Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Building. 7 related planning applications.
20-22 Back Sneddon Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- rough-rampart-woodpecker
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1980
- Type
- Building
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 643
- Coordinates
- 55.84844, -4.42497
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20-22 Back Sneddon Street in Paisley is a building designed by architect T G Abercrombie, completed in 1898 in the Scots Renaissance style. The structure has an asymmetrical T-plan and is constructed from snecked rubble and stugged ashlar, featuring polished ashlar dressings.
The elevation facing Back Sneddon Street is two storeys high and consists of three recessed bays on the left. There is an off-centre entrance that showcases a pilastered and corniced Jacobean doorpiece with a cartouche above it. To the right, a six-light leaded window serves the staircase, while the outer left bay features a canted bay window at the ground floor. The west gable end projects and includes a corbelled bartisan topped with lead, a bell-cast roof, and a panelled gable-head stack.
The return elevation comprises a two-storey and attic section with a five-bay block. It has three round-arched windows at the ground level, with a window arrangement of 1-2-1-2-1 on the first floor and three segmentally pedimented dormers. An adjoining stair tower has an upper window that breaks through the eaves and is topped with a pyramidal roof. There is also an additional gabled bay on the east side. The building features a variety of window designs, slate roofs, and corniced stacks.
Local climate
20-22 Back Sneddon 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 — 7 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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