Violet House, Cyril Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 March 1994. Church.

Violet House, Cyril Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
lesser-clay-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 March 1994
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NS 492 638
Coordinates
55.84445, -4.40882
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Violet House is a church designed by W D McLennan and built between 1899 and 1904. It features an Art Nouveau interpretation of Gothic architecture, incorporating a modified basic formula. The design includes traditional elements such as a nave-and-aisles layout and a main gabled front with a traceried window at the gallery level, which faces Cyril Street. Unique to this building are the artistic treatments and the porches that flank the gable, designed to resemble turrets with large, steep, slated roofs. At the south end, there is a lower hall block that faces Violet Street. The church is constructed of red ashlar stone and has slate roofs with red ridging.

Local climate

Violet House, Cyril 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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