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Latitude: 55.8271 / 55°49'37"N
Longitude: -4.4138 / 4°24'49"W
OS Eastings: 248897
OS Northings: 661951
OS Grid: NS488619
Mapcode National: GBR 3K.5ZPD
Mapcode Global: WH3P6.5SGR
Plus Code: 9C7QRHGP+RF
Entry Name: Lismore, 29 Thornly Park Avenue, Paisley
Listing Name: Thornly Park, 29 Thornly Park Avenue, Lismore Including Arch and Gatepeirs
Listing Date: 10 July 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395468
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48044
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395468
Location: Paisley
County: Renfrewshire
Town: Paisley
Electoral Ward: Paisley Southeast
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Villa
J Craig Barr and Cook, 1910, altered to rear late 20th century. 2-storey, 4-bay gabled villa with semicircular bellcast-roofed porch. Whitewashed harl. Harled transoms and mullions.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bays to centre with low eaves broken by roof of porch with deep-set 2-leaf timber door, bipartite immediately to left with flat-roofed corniced dormer above, narrow gabled bay piercing low eaves to outer right
with 2 closely-aligned bipartites at ground and square bipartite in gablehead. Broad advanced gable to left with flat-roofed semicircular 8-light transomed window at ground and 4 closely-aligned small windows above.
W ELEVATION: blank elevation with projecting centre chimney breast breaking eaves into gablehead stack.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: variety of elements to altered elevation including 4-light transomed stair window to centre with asymmetrically-fenestrated flanking gables, single storey piended bay to left and flat-roofed garden room extension to right at ground.
Small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case and casement windows. Grey slates. Shouldered harled stacks with cans. Overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding.
ARCH AND GATEPIERS: ashlar-coped harled wall with broad depressed arch. Square-section gatepiers.
The first proprietor of Lismore, in 1911, was Andrew A Gardner. James Craig Barr was apprenticed to T G Abercrombie at the Glasgow School of Art during 1898-9. He also designed nearby 'Foxburn' at 17 South Avenue and 'Garail' at 24 Thornly Park Avenue.
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