53 Moss Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

53 Moss Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
noble-grate-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NS 481 642
Coordinates
55.84791, -4.42648
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53 Moss Street in Paisley is an early 19th century building that stands three storeys tall with an attic and features three bays. The exterior is made of droved ashlar with polished dressings. The ground floor has been altered for modern shops.

On the upper floors, there are angle pilasters. The first floor includes two Venetian windows that flank a round-arched window. The second floor has a lintel and an eaves band made of alternating fluted and plain blocks. The building is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course. The slate roof has straight skews and a dormer that stretches between the cornice and the end stacks.

Local climate

53 Moss 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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