61-63 High Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

61-63 High Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
fading-chalk-ivy
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
Tenement
Address
61-63 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1NB
OS grid reference
NS 337 220
Coordinates
55.46362, -4.63049
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

61-63 High Street in Ayr is a three-storey, three-bay tenement built in the Flemish Renaissance style, dated 1895, featuring a ground floor shop. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with pilaster strips marking the bays, which are banded on the outer left and right. The first and second floors have tripartite windows.

On the entrance elevation, there is a modern shop front to the outer right, which includes a modern glazed door, a letterbox fanlight, and modern shopfront windows in the center and to the left bay. The fascia frieze features an inner pilaster design with a crossed key motif, and the outer pilasters display the numbers 61 and 63. The second floor window has Ionic column mullions and is complemented by a bowed balustraded balcony. Above, there is a blind tripartite tympanum, bas relief cherub spandrels, and scrolls adorning the corniced stepped gable, topped with a finial at the straight skewed centre apex.

The first and second floors are fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and corniced stacks rise from the inner pilaster strips, featuring circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

61-63 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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