239-241 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement block. 5 related planning applications.
239-241 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- guardian-joist-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Tenement block
- Address
- 239-241 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1RB
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 216
- Coordinates
- 55.46037, -4.62888
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
239-241 High Street in Ayr is a four-storey, two-bay Edwardian Renaissance tenement block built in 1904 by William Cowie, featuring commercial premises on the ground floor. The building is constructed of polished red ashlar and includes decorative elements such as a modillion cornice for both the shopfront and the main structure. To the left, there is a canted bay with a pediment, pilaster strips, and cartouches framing the third-floor windows. The second-floor window on the left has a segmental pediment and is adorned with architraves and a sculpted apron.
On the entrance elevation, there is a central entrance leading to a modern shopfront on the left, which includes a modern glazed door and a letterbox fanlight. To the right, there is a square-headed close. The fenestration is regular, featuring tripartite windows on all floors of the left bay, bipartite windows on the first and second floors of the right bay, and a tripartite window on the third floor.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with four- and six-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews, brick gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
239-241 High 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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