Mecca Social Club, 23 High Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Shopping centre. 3 related planning applications.
Mecca Social Club, 23 High Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- narrow-clay-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1985
- Type
- Shopping centre
- Address
- Mecca Social Club, 23 High Street, Paisley, PA1 2AF
- OS grid reference
- NS 482 639
- Coordinates
- 55.84516, -4.42525
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mecca Social Club, located at 23 High Street in Paisley, was designed by architect Geo A Boswell in 1912 and showcases Art Deco style. The building features a three-storey, five-bay facade made of glazed variegated brick. Although the ground floor has been altered, the capitals of the original coupled pilasters or columns that flank the entrance still remain. Above the ground floor, there is a cornice and frieze. The first floor displays pylons on the outer bays, with pilasters that rise to bracketed pediments. The central bays contain keystoned windows with oculi above and pilasters in between, which support an entablature with a mutule cornice. The building is topped with a parapet that features moulded decorative panels.
As of 2008, the interior auditorium has been demolished, and a large shopping centre is now situated behind the original facade.
Local climate
Mecca Social Club, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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