Paisley Technical College, 42 George Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 February 1971. College.
Paisley Technical College, 42 George Street, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- outer-baluster-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1971
- Type
- College
- OS grid reference
- NS 480 637
- Coordinates
- 55.84267, -4.42813
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Paisley Technical College, designed by architect T G Abercrombie in 1898, is a Free Renaissance style building featuring a 7-bay central block that is 3 stories tall, but has no windows on the second floor between the advanced 3-bay outer blocks. The structure is built of ashlar stone with deep plinths and channeling at the ground floor window level. The wings have rusticated quoins, and Ionic columns on pedestals flank the entrance door.
The ground floor features round-headed Gibbsian windows and a cill course, while the first floor has straight-headed windows that are architraved with keystones, alternating between segmental and triangular pediments, along with a cill course and projecting aproned panels. The central first-floor window, flanked by pilasters, has a larger segmental pediment. The wings have 15-pane glazing in the ground and first-floor windows, adorned with ornate cartouches in between.
The eaves are marked by an entablature, with a frieze decorated over the wings and a cornice that is dentilled and modillioned. The west elevation is treated as the front of the building, while the east elevation is blind.
Local climate
Paisley Technical College, 42 George Street, 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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