Stable Block And Stores, Ferguslie Thread Works, Paisley

Circa 1850, for J and P Coats. Single storey 8-bay store, with lower single storey stables block at W. Blind S elevations curve to follow line of canal; skylights in S slope of roof. Roughly squared stugged rubble to N and S, with droved and stugged dressings and decoratively detailed margins to openings, alternatively broad and narrow like long and short work; stugged rubble in courses at E gable end; coped Jacobethan gables with ledged skewputts; slated roof (lost over 2 easternmost bays of store, 1991).

STORE, E GABLE; 2 metal doors introduced at ground; ashlar panel with moulded roundel opening, originally set with clock above in gable; spiky gabletted bellocte at apex, with coped skews and ledged skewputts, see as at main gables (bell lost, see NOTES).

N ELEVATION: 8-bay, regular openings, arranged 2-1-2-1-2, paired windows at outer bays and centre, 2 doors between. Doors with raised margins; distinctively treated: vertically boarded door and rectangular fanlight set in simple broad raised architrave, with further raised margin detail, alternatively wider and narrower, like long and short work; steep pitched cope wallhead gablets over doors. Raised margins to windows also; windows originally with 18-pane sash and case glazing. Polygonal Jacobethan manner ashlar end stack to W.

STABLE BLOCK: 5-bay E elevation, door with 3-light narrow fanlight at bay 2 (from left), 2nd door at bay 4 beneath gabletted opening; ridge vent removed, slated roof.