Peter Coats Building, 31 Calside, Paisley

The Peter Coats Building, located at 31 Calside in Paisley, is a two-storey and attic former nurses' home of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, built between 1897 and 1900. It features an elaborately detailed Scottish Renaissance style and has an irregular T-plan layout. The building was extended in 1908 by the Paisley architect Thomas Graham Abercrombie and was converted into private residences in 2005-2006.

Constructed from snecked, stugged red sandstone ashlar with polished margins, the building showcases a base course and crowstepped gables. Most windows are adorned with moulded architraves, and there are dormers with piended roofs as well as others featuring semi-circular pediments that break through the eaves.

The main entrance is located on the south elevation, featuring a wide, round-arched entrance with a moulded architrave and a carved head as a keystone. This entrance is flanked by a pair of drum towers topped with conical roofs, connected by a balcony with a timber balustrade. Above the entrance, there is an inscribed panel with visible words including "Nurses' Home, Peter Coats."

On the south elevation of the eastern wing, there is a three-storey canted tower with an entrance at ground level and a corbelled second floor. The eastern elevation displays two advanced crowstepped gables; the left gable features a buttressed oriel window at the first floor, while the right gable has a round tower in a re-entrant angle topped with a domed, finialled roof.

The building includes a mix of timber sash and case windows, some with a 6-pane over plate glass glazing pattern and others with plate glass. There are also casement windows with plate glass or small pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with green slates, and there are several tall, deeply corniced chimney stacks.