Ymca, 39-41 High Street, Paisley

The YMCA building at 39-41 High Street in Paisley was designed by architect T G Abercrombie and completed in 1908. It is a three-storey structure with a dormerless attic facing High Street and a basement on New Street. The building is constructed of ashlar stone.

The High Street elevation features seven symmetrical bays plus one additional bay on the right. The ground floor has modern shops, with channelled pilaster stairs leading to the angle and the right bay. On the first floor, there is a central carved cartouche flanked by architectural sashes with keystoned brackets. The second floor showcases a central canted oriel window flanked by segmentally-headed sashes.

The drum corner includes modern shops at the ground level and a pulvinated frieze above. The first and second floors are adorned with a giant pilaster order, featuring keystoned and architectured sashes. The central sash on the first floor has a consoled pediment, and the roof is topped with a lead ribbed dome that includes three oculi and a lantern.

The New Street elevation consists of twelve bays, with a six-bay center that is set back. This elevation is similarly detailed to the High Street side, but it features five round-arched windows on the channelled ground floor and flat-headed windows on the second floor of the central bays. Both elevations have a mutuled eaves cornice and a balustrade.

Additionally, there is a three-bay, two-storey building to the south on New Street, which has an elaborately detailed round-headed doorway on the left. The fenestration is irregular, with channelled pilasters on the second floor of the center bay. The entablature breaks forward over the pilasters, and there is a pediment at the center with parapets on the sides. The roof is slate.