62 Fort Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
62 Fort Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- silent-bronze-smoke
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
H V Eaglesham, 1895. 4-storey, 9-bay tenement on corner-site with square-plan 5-stage tower and commercial premises at ground floor. Polished red ashlar; channelled at ground floor; banded at 1st floor. Base course; deep shopfront frieze and cornice; 2nd floor cill course; consoled cornice; parapet (balustraded to outer bays and central bay to Fullarton Street). Strip pilasters flank central 3 bays to Fort Street. Consoled iron balconies and cornices to 2nd floor windows; architraves to 3rd floor windows.
NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: glazed door to No 62 to outer left, shop window to right; glazed timber door to No 64, deep letterbox fanlight; recessed glazed timber door to No 66, letterbox fanlight, flanking shop windows; 2-leaf timber door to No 68, letterbox fanlight, shop window to left; timber door to No 70, letterbox fanlight; glazed timber door to No 72, shop window to right; 2-leaf timber door to No 74, letterbox fanlight, shop window to right. Near symmetrical treatment (excluding tower) to upper floors; tripartite windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors to outer bays; single windows to intermediate bays. Tower to outer left rises 1 stage above roofline; deeply recessed tripartite window; Ionic column mullions; balustraded parapet.
NE (FULLARTON STREET) ELEVATION: glazed door, letterbox fanlight to No 62 Fort Street (see above), shop window to left; 2-leaf timber door, letterbox fanlight to No 2, 3 single windows to right; 2-leaf glazed door to No 4, flanking shop windows; timber door, letterbox fanlight to No 6; off-centre 2-leaf timber door to Nos 8-12, flanking recessed 2-leaf glazed doors, shop windows. Near symmetrical treatment (excluding tower) to upper floors; tripartite windows at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors to central bay and bay to outer left; single windows to remaining bays. Tower to outer right (same as for NW elevation above). Tall banded wallhead stacks.
Shop windows at ground floor; plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Roof (not seen 1998). Banded, corniced stacks; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.