30-38 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Block of shops. 6 related planning applications.
30-38 Newmarket Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- standing-tower-birch
- 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
- Block of shops
- Address
- 30-38 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LP
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.4633, -4.63158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30-38 Newmarket Street in Ayr is a two-storey, nine-bay classical style building designed by James I McDerment in 1869. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar and features a cill course, an elaborate modillion cornice, and a quatrefoil balustrade. The windows are lugged architraved.
On the southeast elevation, there are steps leading to a central entrance that has a cavetto-splayed round arch with a head keystone. The entrance is adorned with an elaborate double-consoled cornice, small pendant heads on the lower consoles, and a large head on the upper consoles. The entrance consists of two-leaf timber doors topped with a letterbox fanlight. Above this, there is a bipartite window aligned at the first floor.
Flanking the entrance are two modern shops on either side. The shop to the outer right has an aluminium glazed door, a letterbox fanlight, and a shop window, while the shop to the outer left features a central entrance with a two-leaf timber door and flanking shop windows. The first floor has regular single window fenestration, with four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof, which was not visible in 1998, has coped stacks and polygonal cans. The interiors were also not seen in 1998.
Local climate
30-38 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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