Seedhill, Anchor Buildings, Anchor Mills, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1990. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
Seedhill, Anchor Buildings, Anchor Mills, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- spare-keystone-swift
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1990
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- Seedhill, Anchor Buildings, Anchor Mills, Paisley, PA1 1JN
- OS grid reference
- NS 487 636
- Coordinates
- 55.8424, -4.41733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Seedhill, Anchor Buildings, located at Anchor Mills in Paisley, is a group of four 4-storey, 5-bay tenements built in 1880. They are situated on a curving site that flanks the approach to Anchor Mills. The front of the buildings is made of ashlar stone, while the sides and rear are constructed from brick.
Each tenement features windows arranged in a pattern of 2-1-1-2, with the centre bay being blind except at the ground level. Above the ground floor, there are rope-moulded roundels inscribed with "Anchor Buildings 1880".
The rear of the buildings is whitewashed brick, with single-light windows except for bipartite stair lights. The sides are harled. There is a single-storey outshot on the left side. The roofs are covered with slate, and there are ashlar ridge stacks. The windows are sash and case with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The property is enclosed by wrought-iron gates and railings on low brick walls.
Local climate
Seedhill, Anchor Buildings, Anchor Mills, 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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