8 New Bridge Street, Ayr

8 New Bridge Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century building featuring three storeys and an attic, with a four-bay design that includes a bay on the outer left corner. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar and is characterized by pilasters that separate the bays of the shopfronts on the ground floor, a shared fascia for the shopfronts, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The window openings have architraved margins, decorative cill pendants, and additional cornices above the first-floor windows.

On the southeast elevation, there is an off-centre timber door with a decorative letterbox fanlight, leading to central entrances flanked by shopfronts that feature two-leaf timber doors and letterbox fanlights, although the left fanlight has been infilled. The upper floors have regular fenestration, and there are two segmental-headed dormers on the outer right and left sides of the attic.

The southwest side elevation includes a single shop window on the right at ground level, with regular fenestration on all floors extending to the quadrant corner on the outer right. The west elevation, facing Boat Vennal, has three bays with regular fenestration in the outer bays, although the ground and first-floor window on the outer right is blind. There is an infilled opening at ground level and two single windows above in the central bay, which serves as the stair bay, along with a single dormer in the attic on the outer left.

The ground floor features shop windows, while the upper floors have 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, has stone skews, a coped stack on the outer left, and circular cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998.