Elliston Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Elliston Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 June 1980
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Elliston Farmhouse, PA9 1AS
OS grid reference
NS 393 601
Coordinates
55.80763, -4.56511
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Elliston Farmhouse is an early to mid 19th century single-storey and attic farmhouse featuring three bays, with lower flanking wings that form a U-plan. To the west, there is a later 19th century open-sided Dutch barn. The farmhouse has a prominent central bay with a pediment. The exterior is harled with raised ashlar dressings, while the rear and wings are finished in lime-wash rubble. A cornice runs along the top.

The principal elevation faces north and includes a central pedimented bay with a corniced, pilastered doorpiece, flanked by Venetian windows. There are also a pair of piended, canted dormers. The windows are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case with horns. The roof is covered in grey slates with raised skews and features corniced gable stacks.

Inside, as seen in 2010, there is some decorative cornicing, and the original room plan is largely intact. The eastern wing has small round ventilation openings, rooflights, ridge ventilation openings, and sliding slatted timber doors. There are additional single-storey farm buildings nearby, some of which have timber doors.

The Dutch barn to the west is a four-bay structure with open sides to the north and south, and coursed rubble walls to the east and west. It is supported by metal columns and has a piended open timber roof covered in grey slates.

Local climate

Elliston Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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