Pavilion, Anchor Recreation Club, Blackhall Street, Paisley

T G Abercrombie and J Steel Maitland, 1924-5. Single storey, attic and basement, 5-bay, double-fronted, Arts and Crafts sports pavilion with 2-storey gabled outer bays and tiered terracing to N and S elevations. Situated in open sporting ground. Roughly tooled and snecked cyclopean rubble; half-timbered and painted, bargeboarded gables. Brick base course, verandas to N and S. 3 small, finialled, piended-roof dormers to centre at N and S. Later 20th century part in-fill to verandas.

N and S (PLAYING FIELD) ELEVATIONS: symmetrical. Central concrete terracing lead to part-glazed 2-leaf entrance doors at 1st storey level. Verandas with pair of stone piers to centre and pairs of timber supports to outer bays; stone mullioned windows and doors to outer gables at N; other sections in-filled with part-timbered, glazed screens. Gabled outer bays with distinctive long narrow oriel windows with curved ends; timber band courses above. Low swept roof over central 3-bays.

E and W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: symmetrical. Advanced 3-storey, 3-bay elevations. Central timber entrance door to basement; bipartite windows above; mullioned and transomed window at top storey. M-plan roof with corbelled twin gables. Segmental arched openings to re-entrant angles at sides with timber doors; some in-fill.

Variety of glazing patterns. Predominantly timber top-hopper opening windows within veranda at N and S elevations; multi-pane casement windows to E and W elevations. M-shaped red tiled roof with glazing over valley. Skewputts. Single ridge, square louvred ventilator with copper ogival cap.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2013). Comprehensively altered.