Former Drill Hall, Whithaugh Avenue, Paisley

This former drill hall was designed by James Craig & Barr and opened in 1912. It is in a Scots Baronial style and comprises a single-storey and attic, 4-bay former administration building to the right (north) and an adjoining single-storey hall to the south. The building is concrete rendered with some painted raised stone margins. There is a prominent battered and advanced 3-stage tower to the far right with a corbelled parapet and a crow-stepped gable rising above the parapet. The attic windows break the wallhead and have decorative curvilinear pediments. The entrance door lies in the re-entrant angle within a moulded doorpiece and there is a panel above with a crest and the Royal Engineers motto 'Ubique quo fas et gloria ducunt' (where right and glory lead). The administration building has a pitched and slated roof and the hall has been reroofed in a replacement material.

The interior was seen in 2015. The room layout of the administration building appears to be largely consistent with the building's 1912 date with some modifications. There is a wide curved terrazzo staircase with some metal railings. Some of the rooms have timber fire surrounds and there are some 6-panel timber doors. There are round-arched openings to a number of the rooms and the hall and some of the window architraves have simple decoration. An ancillary staircase has a banister with a stylised thistle decoration as a newel. The hall still retains trench warfare training pits to its south end. It has temporary partitions and a lowered ceiling. The floor of the former viewing balcony is still intact.

There is a low wall to the front elevation topped by metal railings with stylised thistle finials.