Labour Party Offices, Damside, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. Office building. 2 related planning applications.
Labour Party Offices, Damside, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- far-plinth-primrose
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Labour Party Offices, Damside, Ayr, KA8 8ER
- OS grid reference
- NS 339 225
- Coordinates
- 55.46858, -4.62891
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Labour Party Offices, located at Damside in Ayr, is an early 20th-century building featuring two storeys and four bays, with a canted corner bay on a prominent corner site. The exterior is finished in channelled red ashlar and includes a base course, a cill course at the first floor, a cornice, a parapet, and raised channelled quoins. The ground floor windows are arched and adorned with keystones, while the first-floor windows are shouldered.
On the south elevation, there are steps leading to a round-arched entrance situated in the penultimate bay to the left. This entrance features a raised doorpiece, a consoled keystone, a cornice, and corniced dies above, along with a timber door and fanlight. A single window is aligned above the entrance at the first floor. The remaining bays display regular fenestration patterns, including the corner bay, which has a business fascia between the floors and a blank plaque section that rises through the parapet.
The west elevation, facing Weaver Street, consists of two bays with the corner bay on the right. Both floors exhibit regular fenestration, and a wallhead stack rises from a channelled band that divides the bays. There is also a single-storey section to the outer left.
The building features timber windows and has a roof that was unseen in 1998, along with coped stacks and circular cans. The interior was not accessible for viewing in 1998.
Local climate
Labour Party Offices, Damside, 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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