72-74 Oakshaw Street, Paisley is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.
72-74 Oakshaw Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- tall-tin-marsh
- 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
- Address
- 72-74 Oakshaw Street, Paisley, PA1 2DE
- OS grid reference
- NS 477 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84578, -4.4338
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
72-74 Oakshaw Street in Paisley is a building dating from around 1820, with additional bays added in the mid-19th century. It consists of two storeys and an attic, set into a cill, and features three bays with single-storey uneven wings. The exterior is made of horizontally droved masonry, which is painted, and includes angle margins and an eaves band.
The north front has two-storey bays, with a square bay on the left and a canted bay on the right, flanking an Ionic balustraded portico. The windows are plate-glass sash types, and there are two piended, canted dormers. The roofs are slate, with piended roofs over the wings.
Number 72 has a notable stained glass window in its original stair screen, while number 74 is accessed through a south door located at the original half landing height. The building features a band course between the ground and first floors, an eaves band, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with corniced end stacks.
Local climate
72-74 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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