A Category B Listed Building in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
1893 and later. W W Robertson, architect. Board of Works. two storey, ten bay range in Tudor Gothic style: three storey and attic to south in Art Nouveau style dated 1912.
W T Oldrieve, architect Office of Works.
Ashlar two-storey range has eight symmetrical bays with mullioned and transomed windows set in panels to each floor; two pairs of lights at ground three-lights to 1st floor in each bay.
Fretted parapet band over ground floor.
Eaves cornice and battlemented parapet with pinnacles, raised over two centre bays for clockface.
Two bays at right under finialled gable with facetted angle turret, door has ogival two transomed tympanum and two light window to right.
Carved 1st floor windows hoodmoulded. Return elevation similarly detailed but modern, flat-headed pend to ground. Slate roof with triple end stack to rear gable. 1912 extension three storey and attic block with three bays to County Square, splayed corner bay and four bays to County Place, alternately wide and narrow.
Former main entrance to corner with moulded and carved segmentally headed doorway. Another segmentally headed doorway to end bay County Place. Variety of mullioned and transomed windows. Canted oriels rising two floors, to County Square.
Parapet raised over splayed bay and gables to oriel bays. Return to County Place has similarly detailed first and second floor windows and two gabletted dormers raised through eaves. Tall wallhead panelled stack, dated 1912; to west bay with “cap house” detail.
Please Mr Postman
To Remind You To Lick Your Stamps
Postage Stamps Machine
| Gargoyle & Stamp Machine “The enchanting gargoyle above the old stamp machine at the, Old Paisley Post Office. on a time when every letter was an adventure, And every stamp carried a lick of love”. |
Paisley Postcard
