4 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Shop, gabled corner block. 6 related planning applications.
4 Newmarket Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- stony-pavement-vermeil
- 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
- Shop, gabled corner block
- Address
- 4 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.4634, -4.63057
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Newmarket Street in Ayr is a later 18th century, three-storey, three-bay gabled corner building featuring a shopfront on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted render, with a moulded eaves course on the west elevation and painted margins around the window openings on the first and second floors.
On the south elevation, the entrance is located to the left, featuring a modern glazed door, flanked by shop windows. To the outer right, there is a timber door, and the first and second floors have regular fenestration, with a larger window on the first floor to the outer right.
The west elevation, facing Hope Street, has five bays. The entrance is at the outer left on the ground floor, with a timber door, followed by four shop windows to the right. The first floor has five single windows, while the second floor has four single windows, with larger shop windows on the ground floor.
The building features 12-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and brick stacks. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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