Mrs Archibald Coats Memorial Home, Weighhouse Close, Paisley

T G Abercombie, architect. 1900. Free Renaissance. 3-storey

L-plan main block and 2-storey L-plan block attached.

Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Main block 3-bay

symmetrical front to New Street. All windows have roll-

mouldings and 2nd floor raised through eaves, outer windows

with pedimented dormer heads, and ball finials: 12-pane

sashes. Centre windows 1st and 2nd floor project on brackets

and are flanked by Ionic pilasters with frieze and cornice,

and semi-circular dormer head.

Slate roof with moulded straight skews curving up to

square skewputts.

Corniced end stacks. Long west elevation (to Weighhouse

Close) simply detailed. East gable elevation: moulded

segmental-headed doorpiece, windows to left linked vertically

by moulded panels with semi-circular pediment over 2nd.

2-storey block at right angles with 2 flat-headed doors,

and small window between, 12-pane sash window above, raised

through eaves and pedimented. Projecting wing at right with

2 ground floor sashes in moulded surrounds flanking carved

cartouche, and carved and pedimented sash above in gable.