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
- endless-basalt-nettle
- 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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- 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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