Masonic Hall, 20 High Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. Masonic hall. 4 related planning applications.
Masonic Hall, 20 High Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- still-wicket-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1980
- Type
- Masonic hall
- Address
- Masonic Hall, 20 High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BS
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84543, -4.42563
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Masonic Hall, located at 20 High Street in Paisley, was built in 1882 and showcases a French Renaissance architectural style. It is a three-storey building with an attic and features a three-bay façade, although the ground floor has been modernized with shops. The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone.
Prominently, there is a seated statue set in a niche at the center of the first floor. This niche is framed by two shallow canted outer bays that extend through the first floor, supported by Corinthian pilasters adorned with lozenge and triangle decorations. The cornice above breaks forward over the window and the niche. The flanking windows are designed with mullions and transoms and are framed in a similar style.
On the second floor, the windows are treated like those on the first, but they include a continuous cill course and pedestals beneath the pilasters. The eaves cornice and die parapet feature balusters in front of the dormers. The roof is a mansard style, covered with slate, and includes three steeply pedimented dormers. The chimney stacks are topped with small segmental pediments.
Local climate
Masonic Hall, 20 High 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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