53-55 Oakshaw Street, Paisley is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Houses.

53-55 Oakshaw Street, Paisley

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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 March 1985
Type
Houses
OS grid reference
NS 478 640
Coordinates
55.84558, -4.43135
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53-55 Oakshaw Street in Paisley is a pair of early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay houses, with the added feature of an attic in number 51. The buildings are constructed from painted droved ashlar with polished dressings. There is a raised strip at the center between the houses, and they have a contrasting painted base course and cills. The doorways are pilastered and corniced, with blocks above the door of number 51 on the left and that of number 55 in the center. Number 51 has 8-pane sash windows, while number 55 features 12-pane sash windows. The houses have an eaves band and a slate roof, which includes rendered stacks and a canted and piended dormer on number 51.

Local climate

53-55 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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