8, 10, 12 Forbes Place, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 August 1978. Terrace. 2 related planning applications.

8, 10, 12 Forbes Place, Paisley

WRENN ID
third-tallow-gorse
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 August 1978
Type
Terrace
Address
8, 10, 12 Forbes Place, Paisley, PA1 1UT
OS grid reference
NS 484 638
Coordinates
55.84394, -4.4226
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 8, 10, and 12 Forbes Place in Paisley, dates from around 1830 and is a three-storey, ten-bay terrace constructed of ashlar stone. The doors at numbers 8 and 10 are architraved and share a consoled cornice, with each featuring a block pediment. At number 12, a pend has been inserted, replacing the original door. The first floor has architraved windows with cill brackets and cornices, and most of the 12-pane sash windows remain unaltered. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, with surviving corniced wallhead stacks. The roof is slate.

Local climate

8, 10, 12 Forbes Place, 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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