89-91 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.

89-91 High Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
winter-hinge-dock
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 337 219
Coordinates
55.46286, -4.63071
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

89-91 High Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century tenement that was remodeled in the mid-19th century. It is a three-storey, three-bay building featuring a ground floor shop. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar. The ground floor shopfront has a cornice, and there is a cornice and blocking course above it. The first floor has corniced, moulded, and architraved windows, with a central window featuring a scrolled swan-neck pediment and acroterian motifs on the flanking windows. The second floor has architraved windows.

On the northeast elevation, there is a modern shopfront entrance on the left, which includes a two-leaf aluminium glazed door, and a timber door leading to the close entrance for No 89 on the outer right. The upper storeys have regular fenestration. The first floor has modern windows, while the second floor features four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews. A coped brick stack is located on the outer right, and a coped harl stack is on the outer left, both of which are mutual. Circular cans are also present. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

89-91 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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