8 Oakshaw Street, Paisley is a Grade C listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

8 Oakshaw Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
idle-pilaster-plum
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
House
Address
8 Oakshaw Street, Paisley, PA1 2DD
OS grid reference
NS 481 641
Coordinates
55.84641, -4.42697
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 Oakshaw Street in Paisley is a house built around 1830. It features three bays and has a one-storey and attic over a basement at the south end, while the north end is two-storey with an attic. The exterior is made of painted rubble with ashlar margins on the south front and over the basement. There is a shallow porch and marginal two-pane sash windows, along with an eaves band. The roof is slate, with corniced end stacks and a modern dormer. The north elevation has similar detailing, including a gabled porch with a roof covered in fishscale slates. There are two canted dormers flanking a single piended dormer.

Local climate

8 Oakshaw 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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