45-47 Causeyside Street, Paisley

T G Abercrombie, architect, 1903. Free style 4-storey

tenement, 6-bays to Causeyside Street, circled corner and

2 bays to Johnston Street. Ashlar with later shops to

ground floor. Causeyside Street elevation: bay to left has

1 window each floor; remaining 5 bays treated symmetrically

with bipartites to centre, those to 2nd and 3rd floors

advanced on corbelled projection with segmental broken

pediment raised through eaves. Flanking bays have single

windows. Canted windows to 1st and 2nd floors of outer bays

and tripartites to 3rd with bracketted eaves cornice and

balustraded parapet flanked by corniced wallhead stacks,

those to right reduced. Circled corner has 3 sashes to

each floor with cill cornice and cornice over to 1st floor,

cills to 2nd and bracketted cill cornice to 3rd from which

rise thin pilasters to corbels supporting exaggerated

bell-cast splayed roof: copper clad Johnston Street

elevation: Cilled bipartites to left bay each floor.

Cilled single windows to right bay, those to 2nd and 3rd

floors corbelled out rising to open pediment paired

through eaves. Glazing overall has small panes to upper

sashes. Swept eaves to both elevations. Slate roof with

corniced stacks.