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Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, Paisley

A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8458 / 55°50'44"N

Longitude: -4.432 / 4°25'55"W

OS Eastings: 247826

OS Northings: 664072

OS Grid: NS478640

Mapcode National: GBR 3K.4MLC

Mapcode Global: WH3P5.WBPD

Plus Code: 9C7QRHW9+85

Entry Name: Peter Brough District Nurses' Home, 56 Oakshaw, Paisley

Listing Name: 56 Oakshaw Street, Peter Brough District Nurses' Home

Listing Date: 27 June 1980

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384632

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39086

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384632

Location: Paisley

County: Renfrewshire

Town: Paisley

Electoral Ward: Paisley Northwest

Traditional County: Renfrewshire

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Description

T G Abercrombie, architect, 1897. Scots renaissance.
3-storey with dormer heads, 3-bay. Stugged ashlar with
polished dressings. Base course. Full height circular
entrance tower at centre, architraved door surround with
lugged moulding linked to ground floor cill course to
carved cartouche above. 3 windows to 1st floor of tower
with moulded reveals and 3 to 2nd floor with moulded cill
course and pilasters. Simple eaves cornice and conical
slate roof. Side bays with 2-pane sashes each floor in
moulded reveals. 2nd floor windows raised through eaves
with pedimented gablets. Rear block projecting slightly
at both sides, with variety of glazing asymmetrically
placed.
Wide eaves. Double hipped roof with straight skews and
corniced stacks. Panelled ashlar gatepiers probably from
earlier house on site with domical caps.

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