21, 23, 25 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
21, 23, 25 Newmarket Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- watchful-keep-rowan
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 21, 23, 25 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LL
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.463, -4.63129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21, 23, 25 Newmarket Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century tenement building with later alterations made by John Murdoch in 1880. It is two stories high with an attic and features three bays, with a shop located on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted sandstone and includes a cornice above the shopfront, an eaves course, a cornice at the top, and a balustraded parapet. The first floor has architraved windows.
On the northwest elevation, there is a three-centred arched Victorian arcade for the shopfront, which has been re-clad in modern materials. The central entrance features a two-leaf glazed modern aluminium door, while the outer left has a two-leaf timber door. The first floor has regular window placement, and there are two piended dormers in the attic.
The first floor and attic have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has brick stacks with circular cans. The interior was not seen during the inspection in 1998.
Local climate
21, 23, 25 Newmarket Street, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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