120, 122 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.
120, 122 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- solitary-gargoyle-shade
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46287, -4.62971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
120 and 122 High Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, two-bay tenement building featuring a modern shopfront on the ground floor. The exterior is made of painted coursed and squared sandstone, with a cornice above the shopfront, a cill course at the second floor, and a cornice and blocking course at the top. The upper floors have architraved windows.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central entrance to the shop on the ground floor, consisting of a two-leaf modern glazed door flanked by shop windows. The upper floors display regular, closely spaced windows.
The upper floors are fitted with timber sash and case windows, featuring six panes in the upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate and has broad brick gablehead stacks, with rubble and brick on the left side and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
120, 122 High 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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