Burton's, 6 And 8 High Street is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 2005. Shop building. 5 related planning applications.

Burton's, 6 And 8 High Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 October 2005
Type
Shop building
Address
Burton's, 6 And 8 High Street, PA1 2YA
OS grid reference
NS 483 640
Coordinates
55.84567, -4.42344
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Burton's, located at 6 and 8 High Street, is a three-storey Art Deco classical shop building designed by Henry Wilson and constructed between 1929 and 1930. It occupies a prominent corner site and features a roughly five-bay by three-bay layout. The building is notable for its paired giant Ionic pilasters on the first and second floors, a curved corner treatment, and a stepped parapet.

The structure is steel-framed and clad in white faience on the first and second floors, while the ground floor on the Dyer's Wynd elevation is finished in limestone or concrete. The ground-level shopfronts have been altered and feature mid- to late 20th century glazed designs, with bays separated by simple pilasters. A deep fascia is framed by a corniced architrave, which also serves as the cill course for the first floor.

The first and second floors are distinguished by stylised paired giant Ionic pilasters, with metal-framed glazing in between and a wider bay at the corner. Reeded cast-iron panels with central rosettes separate the first and second floors, topped by an entablature that includes a key-pattern cornice and an anthemion band. The stepped parapet is adorned with a blind panel inscribed "Burton's" at the centre and features an anthemion finial above. The outer bays are very plain. Additionally, there is a service door on the rear elevation (Dyer's Wynd) with a moulded, shouldered architrave that encompasses a panel inscribed "BURTON BUILDINGS." The interior has been reconstructed.

Local climate

Burton's, 6 And 8 High Street 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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