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Latitude: 55.8422 / 55°50'32"N
Longitude: -4.4239 / 4°25'25"W
OS Eastings: 248322
OS Northings: 663658
OS Grid: NS483636
Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4WZN
Mapcode Global: WH3P6.0FN4
Plus Code: 9C7QRHRG+VC
Entry Name: 45-47 Causeyside Street, Paisley
Listing Name: 45-47 (Odd Nos) Causeyside Street and Johnston Street
Listing Date: 10 February 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384429
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38941
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384429
T G Abercrombie, architect, 1903. Free style 4-storey
tenement, 6-bays to Causeyside Street, circled corner and
2 bays to Johnston Street. Ashlar with later shops to
ground floor. Causeyside Street elevation: bay to left has
1 window each floor; remaining 5 bays treated symmetrically
with bipartites to centre, those to 2nd and 3rd floors
advanced on corbelled projection with segmental broken
pediment raised through eaves. Flanking bays have single
windows. Canted windows to 1st and 2nd floors of outer bays
and tripartites to 3rd with bracketted eaves cornice and
balustraded parapet flanked by corniced wallhead stacks,
those to right reduced. Circled corner has 3 sashes to
each floor with cill cornice and cornice over to 1st floor,
cills to 2nd and bracketted cill cornice to 3rd from which
rise thin pilasters to corbels supporting exaggerated
bell-cast splayed roof: copper clad Johnston Street
elevation: Cilled bipartites to left bay each floor.
Cilled single windows to right bay, those to 2nd and 3rd
floors corbelled out rising to open pediment paired
through eaves. Glazing overall has small panes to upper
sashes. Swept eaves to both elevations. Slate roof with
corniced stacks.
This corner tenement is well detailed and is a significant addition to the streetscape.
Previous reference to Dean of Guild Drawings relate to HBNUM 38940. Removed from this list description, 2011.
Thomas Graham Abercrombie (1862-1926) was a local Paisley arcgitect who designed a large number of buildings in the town, including private houses, churches and public buildings.
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