237 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. 3 related planning applications.

237 High Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
bitter-steeple-equinox
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
Address
237 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1RB
OS grid reference
NS 338 216
Coordinates
55.46045, -4.62892
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

237 High Street in Ayr is a four-storey, three-bay Edwardian Baroque tenement building, designed by J and H V Eaglesham in 1904. The building features polished red ashlar with banded rustication at the first floor. It has a modillioned cornice above the shopfront, which also has a modillion shopfront cornice, and a balustraded parapet with rectangular dies. The outer bays are framed by a giant Doric pilaster order, with shields on the entablature blocks above, including one inscribed with "1904" on the right. The second floor windows have architraves and keystones, along with consoled iron balconies. The central second floor window features a consoled broken pediment, while the central third floor window has a double architrave with scrolled ends and a keystone.

On the entrance elevation, there is a modern shopfront to the left with a glazed timber door and sidelight. The windows to the right are part of Nos 225-231, and there is a square-headed close to the outer left. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with plate glass timber sash and case windows at the first floor and six-pane upper sashes at the second and third floors. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a brick stack. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

237 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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