Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- strange-hall-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley, PA1 1AG
- OS grid reference
- NS 481 638
- Coordinates
- 55.84407, -4.42657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, 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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