Ymca, 39-41 High Street, Paisley

T G Abercrombie, architect, dated 1908. Beaux Arts. 3

storeys with dormerless attic to High Street and basement

to New Street and down corner. Ashlar. High Street

elevation: 7 symmetrical bays plus 1 to right. Modern shops

at ground floor Channelled pilaster stairs to angle and

right bay. 1st floor central carved cartouche flanked by

architectural and keystoned sashes with bracketted cills.

2nd floor central canted oriel flanked by segmentally-

headed sashes.

Drum corner has modern shops at ground and pulvinated

frieze over. Giant pilaster order to 1st and 2nd floors

with keystoned and architectured sashes, that to 1st floor

centre with consoled pediment; lead ribbed dome with 3

oculi and lantern.

New Street elevation: 12 bays; 6 bay centre set back;

similarly detailed to High Street except 5 round-arched

windows in channelled ground floor and flat heads to 2nd

floor windows of central bays. Mutuled eaves cornice and

balustrade to both elevations. Additional 3-bay, 2 storey

building to south in New Street elaborately detailed round

headed doorway at left. Irregular fenestration.

Channelled pilasters to 2nd floor centre bay. Entablature

breaks forward over pilasters. Pediment to centre and

parapets to sides. Slate roof.