60 Alloway Street, Ayr

This is a 3-storey tenement building of 1896, designed by J K Hunter, situated on a corner site at the junction of Alloway Street and Dalblair Road in Ayr. The building has a double-height ground floor, designed to accommodate shops, and a bowed bay fronting onto Alloway Street. The facade is 7 bays wide, grouped as 1-4-1-1, with a 5-bay bowed corner bay. A shopfront cornice, eaves course, cornice and moulded parapet define the roofline; the corner bow is further embellished with a balustraded parapet.

The south (corner) elevation features a 5-bay bowed front. A recessed, off-centre entrance is located at ground floor, with a modern 2-leaf door. Flanking shop windows are positioned on both sides of the entrance at ground and first floor levels, with a single entrance to the outer right. The first floor features three strip-pilastered, corniced bipartite windows, while the second floor has three single windows to the central bays. Single windows are present on the first floor of the flanking bays. Aprons and aedicules adorn the second-floor windows, which rise through the parapet to form a stack-framed arch, incorporating iron-worked, keyblocked ovals. To the left of the corner bow, recessed 2-leaf doors lead to shops at ground floor, with glazed timber doors, side-lights, and letterbox fanlights above. To the right of the corner bow, a glazed door leads to a shop, also with side-lights and a letterbox fanlight, alongside shop windows above.

The east (Alloway Street) elevation is 5 bays wide, grouped 1-3-1. A central shopfront entrance is located to the outer left, flanked by shop windows, with a glazed timber door and keyblocked circular fanlight above. An entrance to the right serves a shopfront to the right, with a further entrance to the outer right. Bipartite windows are situated on the first and second floors in the bay to the outer left. The central bays have three single windows on each floor, with cills to two of the first-floor windows and larger windows to the bay on the right. A canted oriel window is present in the bay to the outer right, rising through the parapet to form a stack-framed gablet and featuring decorative ironwork within a rectangular opening to an arch.

The building predominantly features plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is not visible, but original corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans are present. The interior was not inspected in 1998.