Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Nurses' home. 1 related planning application.
Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- scattered-pewter-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1980
- Type
- Nurses' home
- Address
- Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, Paisley, PA1 2DE
- OS grid reference
- NS 478 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84577, -4.43203
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, designed by architect T G Abercrombie in 1897, is an example of Scots Renaissance architecture. This three-storey building features dormer heads and has a three-bay façade constructed from stugged ashlar with polished dressings.
At the center, there is a full-height circular entrance tower with an architraved door surround that has lugged moulding, connected to a ground floor cill course and topped with a carved cartouche. The tower has three windows on the first floor with moulded reveals and three on the second floor with a moulded cill course and pilasters. The building is finished with a simple eaves cornice and a conical slate roof. The side bays contain two-pane sash windows on each floor, also in moulded reveals, while the second-floor windows are raised through the eaves and topped with pedimented gablets.
The rear block projects slightly on both sides and features a variety of glazing that is asymmetrically placed. The building has wide eaves and a double hipped roof with straight skews and corniced stacks. Additionally, there are panelled ashlar gatepiers, likely from an earlier house on the site, topped with domical caps.
Local climate
Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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