Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley

The Mrs. Archibald Coats Memorial Home, designed by architect T G Abercrombie in 1900, is a three-storey building in the Free Renaissance style, accompanied by a two-storey block attached at right angles. The main block features snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and has a symmetrical three-bay front facing New Street. All windows are adorned with roll-mouldings, and the second-floor windows are raised through the eaves. The outer windows have pedimented dormer heads with ball finials and consist of 12-pane sashes. The centre windows on the first and second floors project on brackets and are flanked by Ionic pilasters, complete with a frieze and cornice, and topped with a semi-circular dormer head.

The roof is slate with moulded straight skews that curve up to square skewputts, and there are corniced end stacks. The long west elevation, which faces Weighhouse Close, is simply detailed. The east gable elevation features a moulded segmental-headed doorpiece, with windows to the left linked vertically by moulded panels and a semi-circular pediment over the second window. The two-storey block includes two flat-headed doors and a small window between them, with a 12-pane sash window above, raised through the eaves and pedimented. The projecting wing on the right has two ground floor sashes in moulded surrounds flanking a carved cartouche, with a carved and pedimented sash window above in the gable.