Sports Pavilion, Paisley Grammar School, Penilee Road, Paisley

The Sports Pavilion at Paisley Grammar School, designed by H Cook of Cook and Hamilton in 1937, is a notable example of Modern Movement architecture. The building features a two-storey central block with a narrow rectangular plan, flanked by single-storey wings at the rear and a single-storey projection at the front, which has a distinctive bowed centerpiece. The structure has a brick base course and rendered walls, with contrasting paint on the band courses. It includes a variety of bipartite, tripartite, and single metal windows.

The principal elevation is three bays wide, showcasing a five-part deep bow at the center that contains large near-square, tripartite, metal mullioned and transomed windows. Flanking the bow are tripartite brick mullioned and transomed doorways, each with glazed sidelights and fanlights, leading to two-leaf doors. The wallhead features banded courses, and there are continuous deck railings on a viewing platform above, which is accessed by curving brick stairs topped with a metal deck railing that caps a solid balustrade. The first floor has a narrow canopied door at the center, flanked by small square lights and set under a stepped parapet that was formerly adorned with a clock. The outer bays feature narrow horizontal windows, while the outer wall planes are blind.

The recessed end elevations of the single-storey wings on the left and right each have a projection in the re-entrant angle and windows, though they are not mirrored in design. The windows display horizontal-pane metal glazing patterns, hopper panes, and casements, with plate glass used in the bow windows. The building has flat roofs, a single rooftop stack, and square rainwater hoppers.

The interiors were refurbished in 2009, which included roofing over the former external area at the rear. The reception area retains its original layout, external windows, and two-leaf panelled doors with patterned astragals in the glazed upper panels. Some original tiling remains visible.