38-40 Oakshaw Street, Paisley is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. House.

38-40 Oakshaw Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
under-buttress-ivory
Grade
C
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 479 641
Coordinates
55.84618, -4.43082
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

38-40 Oakshaw Street is a house built around 1830. It has three bays and is two stories high with an attic on the south side, and three stories with an attic on the north side. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features raised angle strips. The south side has a doorpiece with pilasters and a cornice, leading to a double-leaf panelled door. The windows are 2-pane sashes, and there is an eaves cornice along with a blocking course. The roof is slate, with straight skews, corniced end stacks, and two canted dormers. On the north elevation, there is a three-story canted window on the left and tripartite windows on the right.

Local climate

38-40 Oakshaw 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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