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Latitude: 55.8534 / 55°51'12"N
Longitude: -4.4431 / 4°26'35"W
OS Eastings: 247161
OS Northings: 664945
OS Grid: NS471649
Mapcode National: GBR 3J.4C1C
Mapcode Global: WH3P5.Q4FJ
Plus Code: 9C7QVH34+9P
Entry Name: Four Square Tobacco Factory, Greenhill Road, Paisley
Listing Name: Greenhill Road, Four Square Tobacco Factory
Listing Date: 5 July 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384679
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39130
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384679
Location: Paisley
County: Renfrewshire
Town: Paisley
Electoral Ward: Paisley Northwest
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
James Steel Maitland, 1936-9. Early industrial modernism on
urban site. Simple long rectangular plan with projecting
(? stair) tower to rear. 19-bay, 3-storey symmetrical
street elevation; flat roofed. Horizontally disposed, but
articulated by 4 shallow-advanced (and glazed) pylons,
centre and end bays (bays 2, 8, 12, 18) breaking wallhead.
Decorated at first and second-storey cill courses by
distinctive projecting corbel brackets. Strip windows with
iron-framed multi-pane glazing and wire-meshed rein-forced
glass. Vertical wall mullions with blue bronze-panelled
surface (brick beneath). Centre pair wall mullions
harled end gables (loading bay N). Rear elevation also
continuouslu glazed; subsidiary building attached now
partly demolished (1990).
Pylon arrangement is reminiscent of J J Burnet's mullioned
pylon towers (eg McGeoch's warehouse, West Campbell
Street, Glasgow)
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