Hunterhill House, Ardgowan Avenue, Paisley is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1980. House.

Hunterhill House, Ardgowan Avenue, Paisley

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Renfrewshire
Constituency
Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP: Johanna Baxter (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 June 1980
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 486 631
Coordinates
55.83771, -4.41797
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hunterhill House, located on Ardgowan Avenue in Paisley, was built between 1902 and 1903 by architect T G Abercrombie in the Arts and Crafts style. The building is part two storey and part one storey, both featuring attics. It is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings mainly on the lower parts, while the rest is harled with some timber elements.

The northeast elevation features a projecting gable on the right with a canted porch that extends upward in harl and timber, leading to a mullioned half-lozenge window. This gable is adorned with a rounded coat of arms. To the left, there is a two-storey canted bay with mullioned windows at the ground level. The southwest elevation has an advanced gabled bay on the right, which includes a projecting ground floor window with a balcony above a French window on the first floor. To the right of this bay are buttressed paired ashlar stacks, and to the left is a splayed corner that rises to a parapeted turret.

On the left side of the elevation, there is another two-storey canted bay that has three ashlar stacks to the right and a moulded parapet that extends around to the north gabled end. The ground level features mullioned windows between the end bays. The southeast end has a two-storey and attic extension, with the end wall displaying a segmentally headed, mullioned window at the ground level and a tower raised through the eaves at an angle, topped with a pitched roof. The roofs are red-tiled with corniced stacks, some of which are harled. Both long elevations include pairs of flat-roofed dormers, and small-paned glazing remains intact on the northeast side. The interior of the house is mostly intact, featuring a splayed fireplace and stained glass in the hall.

Local climate

Hunterhill House, Ardgowan 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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