The Old House, 14 Mains Road, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971. House.
The Old House, 14 Mains Road, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- vacant-moat-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 475 633
- Coordinates
- 55.83885, -4.43549
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old House, located at 14 Mains Road in Paisley, is a later 18th century building with some later additions. It is a two-storey and attic structure built over a basement, featuring a three-bay symmetrically fronted T-plan layout and single-storey offices. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins and rusticated long and short quoins. There is a band course above the basement and a door with a lugged architrave. The windows are two-pane sash, with those on the ground floor having lugged margins, and there is a cill band on the first floor. The building has an eaves band and cornice, topped with a slate roof that has straight skews and rolled skewputts. Corniced ashlar stacks are located at the ends, and there are two piended dormers. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing and a single-storey flat-roofed range at right angles, likely from the early 19th century, featuring 12- and 8-pane sash windows and a piended slate roof with a wallhead ashlar stack.
Local climate
The Old House, 14 Mains Road, 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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