General, Houston Square, Johnstone is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 January 1991. Bandstand.

General, Houston Square, Johnstone

WRENN ID
solitary-turret-gilt
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 January 1991
Type
Bandstand
OS grid reference
NS 427 632
Coordinates
55.83645, -4.5122
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a bandstand located in Houston Square, designed by James B Lamb in 1891. It features an octagonal shape and is raised on a channeled stone platform base. The structure is supported by cast-iron columns made by Murdoch and Cameron from Glasgow, which are adorned with decorative wrought-iron brackets and are enclosed by decorative wrought-iron railings. The roof is made of timber and cornice, leading to an octagonal ogee-domed cupola that includes louvre and pediment detailing, topped with a wrought-iron apex weather-vane. Additionally, there are free-standing cast-iron bollards that enclose the bandstand to the north, created by P & R Fleming from Glasgow.

Local climate

General, Houston Square, Johnstone sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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