40 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.

40 Newmarket Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
spare-remnant-starling
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
OS grid reference
NS 337 209
Coordinates
55.45428, -4.63118
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40 Newmarket Street in Ayr is an earlier 19th century, two-storey and attic, five-bay tenement building that features shops on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar and includes a cornice above the shopfronts, a cornice at the top of the building, and a blocking course. The first-floor windows are framed with architraves.

On the southwest elevation, there are two shopfronts at ground level. The entrance to the shop on the left has a two-leaf timber door and a central shop window, while the entrance to the shop on the right features a glazed timber door with flanking shop windows. The first floor has regular window placement, except for a blind window in the penultimate bay on the left. There is a single piended dormer in the attic on the left side.

The windows are plate glass timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped stacks with circular and polygonal chimney cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998.

Local climate

40 Newmarket 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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