10 Broomlands Street, Paisley

10 Broomlands Street in Paisley consists of a pair of tenement blocks built in the late 1870s, connected by cast-iron columned shopfronts that span the full width of both buildings. The exterior features stugged, squared, and snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings, and distinctive free-standing cast-iron mullions with glazing behind, reminiscent of the work of architect Alexander Thomson.

No 8, located on the right, is a three-storey building with an attic and has four bays. The original shopfront is still visible at ground level, although partially obscured by a modern sign. It features cast-iron Corinthianesque columns raised on high narrow circular plinths, with a bracketed corniced entablature above, likely also hidden beneath the modern sign. The detailing includes cusped designs between the brackets. The first and second floors have shallow segmental-headed windows, with single lights paired at the center and tripartite arrangements at the outer bays, all showcasing Thomsonesque slender free-standing cast-iron mullions in front of stone mullions. The windows have stop-chamfered margins and round-moulded lintels with pellet details. The first floor is enhanced by continuous stepped hood-moulds, and there is a cill-course at the second floor. The eaves course is dentilled and bracketed, and there is an elaborate wallhead stack with a polygonal center and flanking gabletted dies, featuring a datestone roundel and quatrefoil roundels with cast-iron finials. The chimney cans are also in the Thomsonesque style. The building has original canted dormer windows at the outer bays and an end stack to the right.

No 10 retains its original cast-iron columned shopfront at ground level, mirroring the detailing of No 8. The openings on the first and second floors are arranged similarly to No 8, with low segmental-headed windows and slender free-standing cast-iron mullions. However, the first floor features decorative consoles that support corniced brackets for each bay instead of hood-moulds. There is a cill-course at the second floor, and the building has a plain tall narrow wallhead stack with simpler polygonal chimney cans, along with flanking dormers.