12 High Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971.
12 High Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- heavy-wall-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Address
- 12 High Street, Paisley, PA1 1BG
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 640
- Coordinates
- 55.84542, -4.42469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
10A High Street in Paisley is a three-storey building with an attic, designed by architect John Honeyman in 1871. The building features eight bays facing High Street, with four bays on the left set back, a quadrant corner bay, and a two-bay elevation on Moss Street. The ground floor is finished in ashlar with channeling, although modern shop fronts have been inserted. A cornice runs above the ground floor, except for the four western bays, and a blocking course serves as a cill course for the first-floor windows. These windows are architraved and flanked by pilasters that support alternating triangular and segmental pediments. The cornice above the first floor also acts as a cill course for the second-floor windows, which have lugged architraves at both the top and bottom. There is a cornice with a balustrade and dies, along with a clock positioned over the quadrant. The four western bays feature three pedimented dormers, with the outer pair being bipartite and the middle one having two chimneys disguised as acroteria. The roof is slate-covered and includes corniced stacks.
Local climate
12 High 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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