Pavilion, Anchor Recreation Club, Blackhall Street, Paisley

The Pavilion at the Anchor Recreation Club on Blackhall Street in Paisley was designed by T G Abercrombie and J Steel Maitland and built between 1924 and 1925. This single-storey structure, with an attic and basement, features five bays and is double-fronted in the Arts and Crafts style. It has two-storey gabled outer bays and tiered terraces on the north and south elevations, situated in an open sporting ground. The building is constructed from roughly tooled and snecked cyclopean rubble, with half-timbered and painted bargeboarded gables. It has a brick base course and verandas on both the north and south sides, along with three small dormers with finials and piended roofs at the center of the north and south elevations. There is also a later 20th-century infill to the verandas.

The north and south elevations are symmetrical, featuring central concrete terraces that lead to part-glazed two-leaf entrance doors at the first-storey level. The verandas are supported by a pair of stone piers in the center and timber supports on the outer bays. The outer gables on the north side have stone mullioned windows and doors, while other sections have been infilled with part-timbered, glazed screens. The gabled outer bays are notable for their long, narrow oriel windows with curved ends and timber band courses above. The central three bays are topped with a low swept roof.

The east and west elevations are also symmetrical, with advanced three-storey, three-bay sections. A central timber entrance door leads to the basement, with bipartite windows above and a mullioned and transomed window at the top storey. The roof is M-plan with corbelled twin gables, and there are segmental arched openings at the re-entrant angles on the sides, featuring timber doors and some infill.

The building showcases a variety of glazing patterns, predominantly featuring timber top-hopper opening windows within the verandas on the north and south elevations, while the east and west elevations have multi-pane casement windows. The M-shaped roof is covered with red tiles and has glazing over the valley, along with skewputts and a single ridge square louvred ventilator capped with a copper ogival cap.

The interior has been comprehensively altered, as observed in 2013.