Peter Coats Building, 31 Calside, Paisley

A 2-storey and attic, elaborately and extensively detailed, Scottish Renaissance, irregular T-plan former nurses' home of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary. The building dates from 1897-1900 and was extended in 1908 by the Paisley architect Thomas Graham Abercrombie. It was converted to private residences in 2005-6. The building is of snecked, stugged, red sandstone ashlar with polished margins and the majority of the windows have moulded architraves. The building has a base course, crowstepped gables, and there are dormers with piended roofs and others with semi-circular pediments which break though the eaves.

The main entrance elevation is at the south. There is a wide, round-arched entrance with a moulded architrave with a carved head as a keystone. This is flanked by a pair of drum towers with conical roofs which are linked by a balcony with a timber balustrade. There is an inscribed panel above, with some words visible including Nurses' Home, Peter Coats.

The south elevation of the eastern wing has a three-storey canted tower with an entrance at ground level and a corbelled 2nd floor. The eastern elevation has two advanced crowstepped gables, and the one to the left has a buttressed oriel window at first floor level. The gable to the right has a round tower in a re-entrant angle with a domed, finialled roof.

There is a mixture of timber sash and case windows, some with 6-pane over plate glass glazing pattern and some with plate glass glazing pattern. Other windows are casement windows with plate glass, or have small pane glazing patterns. There are green slates to the roof and there are a number of tall, deeply corniced chimney stacks.