1-17 The Counting House, Turners Avenue, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 August 1973. Industrial building.
1-17 The Counting House, Turners Avenue, Paisley
- WRENN ID
- last-panel-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1973
- Type
- Industrial building
- OS grid reference
- NS 467 634
- Coordinates
- 55.8396, -4.44853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-17 The Counting House on Turners Avenue in Paisley dates from around 1890, with later additions. This two-storey building features classical details and has an L-shaped plan with an infilled re-entrant angle at the rear, constructed from ashlar stone.
The north elevation consists of five irregular bays, with three bays advanced and one single-storey bay at the west end. It has a double-leaf panelled door flanked by sidelights and topped with a pediment, which is accessed by steps that include a pair of iron lamp standards. The ground and first floors have tripartite windows with architraves and pilaster mullions, with pediments in the recessed ground bays and the extension. A mutuled cornice runs above the ground floor.
The east elevation features nine bays with a variety of architraved windows and has simple cornices at both the ground and eaves levels. The roof is piended slate with corniced chimney stacks.
Local climate
1-17 The Counting House, Turners Avenue, 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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