Grammar School, Church Hill, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971. School.
Grammar School, Church Hill, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- worn-render-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NS 481 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84593, -4.42761
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grammar School on Church Hill in Paisley was built in 1802, with later additions planned by Robert Barr. This two-storey building features an attic and a basement and was originally constructed as a school. It is made of squared rubble with ashlar dressings, including long and short angle quoins and a band course above the basement. The building has seven ground floor sash windows, with the central window replacing the original entrance, and five first floor sash windows, all of which are margined. The first floor windows have eight panes each. There is an eaves band and cornice, and the slate roof has lowered end stacks along with three later dormers, two of which are canted. To the right, there is a one-storey extension over the basement, similarly detailed, featuring two two-pane sashes and a piended slate roof. At the rear, a deeply projecting rounded rubble stair tower contains the entrance.
Local climate
Grammar School, Church Hill, 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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