2-4 River Terrace, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1977. Houses.
2-4 River Terrace, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- low-ashlar-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1977
- Type
- Houses
- OS grid reference
- NS 339 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46488, -4.62876
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2-4 River Terrace in Ayr is a pair of houses built in the earlier 19th century. They are two stories tall and have six bays, arranged in a grouping of four and two, situated on a corner site. The houses are constructed from painted sandstone rubble, which is exposed on the sides and rear, with margins around the openings.
The northeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, features a recessed entrance in the penultimate bay to the left, with a timber door. Above this entrance, there is a single window aligned at the first floor. The remaining three bays have regular fenestration. To the right, there is a lower two-bay section that includes a pilastered and corniced doorpiece on the left, a timber door, and single windows at both the ground and first floors, with a shuttered window at the ground level.
The northwest elevation, facing Auld Brig, consists of four bays. It has a timber door on the outer right, with two single windows to the left and a two-leaf opening at the ground level leading to a canted bay on the outer left.
On the southeast side elevation, there is an infilled entrance at the ground level to the left. The houses feature 12-pane timber windows and have a grey slate roof with stone skews, gablehead stacks, and both circular and polygonal chimney cans.
The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1998.
Local climate
2-4 River Terrace, 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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