52-66 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. 3 related planning applications.

52-66 Newmarket Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
second-stone-harvest
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Address
52-66 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LR
OS grid reference
NS 336 219
Coordinates
55.46345, -4.63235
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 Newmarket Street in Ayr is a two-storey, seven-bay tenement block built in the later 19th century. The building features a painted ashlar exterior, with an eaves course and a cornice. The first-floor windows have architraves.

On the southwest elevation, there are modern shopfronts on the ground floor, which include glazed timber doors, letterbox fanlights, and shop windows. The first floor has regular fenestration with bipartite windows in the center and outer bays. The first-floor windows are made of plate glass and are timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has brick stacks with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998.

Local climate

52-66 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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