The Grange And Gatepiers, Park Road, Paisley

The Grange is a large house dating from 1911, designed by James Barr Lamb. It is a two-storey house with an attic, set on a rectangular footprint and accompanied by a lower service wing. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings. The entrance elevation faces east and features a crenellated, canted bay in the centre, incorporating a basket-arched doorcase with a semicircular pediment on the southeast face and a narrow light to the left. A blank bay sits to the left of the centre, adjoined to a tower visible on the south elevation. To the right is an advanced bay with a flat-roofed canted window on the ground floor and a tripartite window above.

The south elevation displays a variety of window types, with ground floor windows having stone transoms, except for a small window to the left which has a triangular pediment and bracketed sill. The bay to the right of the centre has bipartite windows on each floor, while the bay to the left features the previously mentioned small window and a single window above, with a tripartite dormer window centrally positioned above. A conical-roofed tower is situated on the outer right, featuring three windows on each floor and small openings close to the roof. The full-height canted bay to the left showcases a half-timbered gablehead.

The west elevation features a bay to the right with a slated, pitch-roofed ingleneuk chimney breast with a stepped centre and small lights on either side. The centre bay has a single window below a nine-light transomed stair window, with a bipartite window on each floor to the left. A small, piended porch with a tripartite window adjoins the lower wing on the outer left.

The north, or rear, elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated with a variety of elements, including a projecting lower wing and a tripartite dormer window to the centre.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, with Art Nouveau coloured glass incorporated into the ingleneuk windows and some top lights. The roof is covered in grey slates, with banded, coped ashlar stacks topped with decorative cans. The eaves overhang deeply, with plain bargeboarding.

Inside, the house retains a good range of original features, including a timber-balustered staircase and timber fire surrounds with carved overmantels. The drawing room has a panelled dado and an ingleneuk fireplace with slender flanking columns leading to small display cupboards with small-pane glazing and a central mirror.

The property is enclosed by stepped boundary walls constructed from ashlar-coped snecked rubble. Conically-coped circular gatepiers support decorative ironwork gates.