Smiley Building, Storie Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Educational building. 1 related planning application.
Smiley Building, Storie Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- wild-mullion-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Smiley Building, Storie Street, Paisley, PA1 2BX
- OS grid reference
- NS 480 638
- Coordinates
- 55.84406, -4.42833
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Smiley Building, located on Storie Street in Paisley, was designed by architects Craig Barr and Cook and constructed between 1911 and 1912. This two-storey structure features three bays, with the central bay advanced. The building is faced with ashlar stone, which is channelled to the cill band of the ground floor and rises to the impost of the architraved round arch of the doorway.
The entrance porch is supported by two Ionic columns and features an entablature with "Hugh Smiley Day Nursery" carved into the frieze above. Tiny sidelights with bracketed cornices are positioned on either side of the porch. The first floor's central bay has a tall, elaborately architraved window topped with an ornate segmental pediment, flanked by narrow sash windows. The outer bays contain tripartite windows; the ground floor has a consoled cornice and pediments over the central lights, while the first floor features windows with bracketed cills.
The eaves cornice includes a blocking course that is raised at the center. The building also has a pedimented gable end facing School Wynd, which is adorned with a cornice.
Local climate
Smiley Building, Storie Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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