26 High Street, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1985. Commercial premises. 3 related planning applications.

26 High Street, Paisley

WRENN ID
lone-truss-sedge
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 March 1985
Type
Commercial premises
Address
26 High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BZ
OS grid reference
NS 481 640
Coordinates
55.84534, -4.42619
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

26 High Street in Paisley is a commercial building dating from around 1883, designed in the French Renaissance style. It is three storeys tall with an attic and features three bays. The building is constructed of ashlar stone. The ground floor has been modernized but retains a cornice above it. On either side of the central entrance, there are shallow canted windows, with single windows in the middle, each having cill courses on the upper floors.

The first-floor canted windows are topped with cornices, and there is a decorative scroll work pediment above the central window. A continuous cornice and parapet run above the second-floor windows. The roof features three wallhead dormers, each with pediments, linked by a parapet, and there is a stack positioned over the center. All the windows are designed with mullions and transoms, and the roof is steeply pitched and covered with slate. The end stacks are adorned with small pediments.

Local climate

26 High 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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