Renfrew 4-24 High Street is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 October 1994. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.

Renfrew 4-24 High Street

WRENN ID
night-belfry-claret
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 October 1994
Type
Commercial building
Address
Renfrew 4-24 High Street, PA4 8QR
OS grid reference
NS 507 676
Coordinates
55.87843, -4.38655
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Renfrew 4-24 High Street is a three-storey building constructed in 1926 for the Renfrew Equitable Cooperative Society Ltd. It features a red sandstone ashlar exterior and is designed in an L shape with classical details. The original windows consist of six-pane upper sashes and two-pane lower sashes, although some have been replaced with modern aluminium-framed windows that are not in keeping with the original design. The building has a slate roof.

On the north elevation, the structure is treated as two blocks, with the left block being nearly symmetrical. It has a canted section with four bays that include round-headed mullioned and transomed windows on the second floor, and bipartite windows on the first floor. These bays are flanked by giant order pilasters, with broken pediments rising through the main pediment. There are angle windows on the first and second floors, as well as a canted oriel with a round-headed pediment. To the left, there is a similar corner oriel with a pyramidal roof, and to the right, a single bay with wide doors and fanlights at ground level. The raised roof features an octagonal louvred ventilator on the right block, while the left block has a single window and a canted oriel, along with a double window and corner oriel.

The east elevation shares similar details with the north elevation but includes small barred windows at ground level. It has eight bays, with the first four bays featuring architraves around the first and second floor windows, along with aprons below and moulded cills. The second floor windows have keystones, with alternating segmental and triangular pediments below a cornice. Two bays are flanked by giant order pilasters, with a frieze above the ground floor supported by broad corbels. A segmental pediment spans both windows, topped by an open pediment. The single bay to the right mirrors the left bays and includes an oriel that turns the corner to the north elevation.

On the west elevation, there is a corner oriel to the left and a bipartite window to the right, treated similarly to the north elevation but with flanking panelled chimney stacks. The ground floor is obscured by an adjoining single-storey building.

Local climate

Renfrew 4-24 High Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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