2, 4, 6 New Bridge Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Tenement and shop. 1 related planning application.
2, 4, 6 New Bridge Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- heavy-shingle-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Tenement and shop
- Address
- 2, 4, 6 New Bridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46488, -4.63194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2, 4, 6 New Bridge Street in Ayr is a building designed by John Kay around 1834, with later additions. It is a four-storey structure with four bays facing New Bridge Street and three bays on South Harbour Street, featuring a single bowed corner bay. The building is constructed of painted ashlar and includes several architectural details such as a base course, a deep eaves course, and a dentilled cornice at the ground floor shopfronts. There is a cill course at the second floor and a deep cill course at the third floor, along with an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The first-floor windows have architrave surrounds and cornices, with additional consoles on the bowed bay, while broad pilasters divide the third-floor windows, except for the bowed bay.
On the southeast entrance elevation, there is a recessed glazed timber door at the center of the bowed bay, flanked by side lights and shop windows. The upper floors feature regular fenestration with tripartite windows. The northeast elevation, facing South Harbour Street, includes the bowed bay on the left and three shopfront windows at the ground floor, with regular fenestration on the upper floors.
The ground floor features shop windows, while the first and second floors predominantly have 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and the third floor has 9-pane windows. The roof is a bowed grey slate design with stone skews, broad gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
2, 4, 6 New Bridge 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings