211-217 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.
211-217 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- keen-chamber-poplar
- 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 338 217
- Coordinates
- 55.46088, -4.62904
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
211-217 High Street in Ayr is a mid-19th century building on the left side, consisting of three bays, with alterations made by Murdoch and Lockhart in 1909 on the right side, which has four bays. This three-storey, seven-bay structure is made of beige ashlar and features a Freestyle tenement design with a modern shop on the ground floor. A cill course is present on the second floor, and there is a finialled wallhead balustrade flanked by dies and supporting scrolls. The windows are moulded, with a cornice on the first floor for the three-bay group on the left, and the central window has a pediment.
On the entrance elevation, the ground floor has a modern shop, and there are two pairs of two-leaf glazed doors leading to the entrance on the right. Pilaster strips frame the central two bays of the four-bay group on the right, rising to the finialed balustrade. There are two single windows on the first and second floors, with single windows flanking only on the second floor. The three-bay group on the left has regular fenestration on both the first and second floors.
The left side features four-pane timber sash and case windows, while the right side has timber casement glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped stacks with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
211-217 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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