6-8 George Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Workshops. 3 related planning applications.

6-8 George Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
patient-barrel-candle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Workshops
Address
6-8 George Street, Paisley, PA1 2JB
OS grid reference
NS 482 637
Coordinates
55.84261, -4.42487
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6-8 George Street in Paisley is a building dating from around 1840. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features eleven bays, constructed from ashlar stone.

The building has a base course and an architraved doorpiece with a consoled cornice, along with a blocking course located to the right of the centre. A later pend has been inserted in two bays on the right, which includes twelve-pane windows that are all rebated and cilled.

There is an eaves cornice and a blocking course at the top of the building. The roof is slate-covered and includes a continuous slate-hung dormer across the eleven bays, with a corniced stack at one end. The rear of the building is made of rubble with ashlar margins.

Local climate

6-8 George 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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