3 Academy Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980.
3 Academy Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- over-lead-ivy
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Address
- 3 Academy Street, Ayr, KA7 1HS
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46415, -4.6329
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2-4 Sandgate in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay plain classical tenement with commercial premises on the ground floor. The entrance elevation features painted ashlar, while the side is made of coursed sandstone, partly painted. The building has a cornice above the shopfronts, cill courses at the upper floors, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows have architraved surrounds, with cornices on the first floor.
On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a central entrance to a shop on the right, which has a modern aluminium glazed door and a letterbox fanlight, flanked by shop windows. To the left, there is another entrance to a shop, also with a modern aluminium glazed door, a letterbox fanlight, and a shop window on the outer left. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The northeast (Academy Street) elevation has two bays. There is a recessed entrance on the outer right with a timber door and a painted letterbox fanlight, with single windows aligned above on the first and second floors. The ground floor has a single window in the center, with smaller single windows aligned above on the first and second floors.
The ground floor features shop windows, while the upper floors predominantly have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone skews, coped gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
3 Academy 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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