2 Wellington Square, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. 2 related planning applications.
2 Wellington Square, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- pitched-mullion-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Address
- 2 Wellington Square, Ayr, KA7 1EN
- OS grid reference
- NS 334 218
- Coordinates
- 55.46165, -4.63545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Wellington Square is a pair of classical houses built in the earlier 19th century. The buildings are two stories high with a basement and attic, featuring a symmetrical four-bay design. They are constructed from painted ashlar stone and include banded rustication at the basement, a ground floor band course, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are architraved, with square brackets at the lower cill corners on the ground floor and cornices above the ground floor windows.
On the south elevation, there is a central stepped platform that overhangs the basement, with corniced, consoled doorpieces topped with block pediments. The doors are made of timber and feature a decorative looped letterbox fanlight. Above, there are single windows aligned at the first floor. The flanking bays have regular fenestration at both the ground and first floors. The attic of No 2 has one dormer, while No 3 has two dormers. The basement features a timber door with a narrow letterbox fanlight and single windows on either side for both houses.
The windows throughout are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case, with 12-pane and 4-pane windows at the basement level. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes coped stacks with circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998. The property is also accompanied by railings and gates, featuring ashlar copes topped with spear-headed iron railings, with urn finials marking the sections, and gates located at the outer left and right.
Local climate
2 Wellington Square, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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