1 New Road, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

1 New Road, Ayr

WRENN ID
scattered-garret-indigo
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
Commercial building
Address
1 New Road, Ayr, KA8 8DA
OS grid reference
NS 338 225
Coordinates
55.46891, -4.62944
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 New Road in Ayr is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, single bay gusset building that features ground floor commercial premises. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar. On the southwest elevation, pilasters flank the ground floor openings, and there is a cornice above the shopfront. The openings have margins.

The southwest (entrance) elevation includes a two-leaf timber door to the right at ground floor level, with a shop window to the left. Above, there is a tripartite window with an architrave at the first floor, and a stack with a pediment above it.

On the southeast (side) elevation, there is a central square-headed entrance with a timber door and a letterbox fanlight. A single window is aligned above at the first floor, with flanking single windows on both floors, including an enlarged window on the ground floor to the left.

The west (Peebles Street) elevation is two-bay with regular fenestration on both floors, although there are blind bays to the right.

The building has modern timber windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, and coped gablehead stacks with circular and polygonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. Additionally, there are iron railings at the entrance elevation that sit atop a low coped boundary wall.

Local climate

1 New Road, Ayr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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