Sanctuary House, 8 Stanely Road, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. House.

Sanctuary House, 8 Stanely Road, Paisley

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 475 625
Coordinates
55.8322, -4.43559
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sanctuary House, located at 8 Stanley Road in Paisley, is a B-listed building designed by architect T G Abercrombie in 1891, with later additions. This Arts and Craft style house features a single storey and attic in an L-plan layout, characterized by asymmetrical gabled elevations. The exterior is constructed of snecked stugged ashlar with polished dressings, and some harl is present on the south elevation.

The house showcases a variety of windows, including a mullioned and transomed window that curves across the re-entrant angle and a similar one positioned centrally on the garden fronts. A swept gable descends to the north side. The Scots Renaissance porch is notable for its parapet and copper dome. An extended east wing culminates in a tile-hung gable that includes variants of "Sparrowes House" windows.

Additionally, there is an octagonal conservatory with ashlar lower courses and wooden colonnettes at the angles, topped with a curved facetted roof featuring a concave cupola. The entrance is marked by ashlar gate piers with bronze nameplates reading "Roneil" and convex screen walls.

Local climate

Sanctuary House, 8 Stanely 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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