12-16 George Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.

12-16 George Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
outer-shingle-vale
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
Address
12-16 George Street, Ayr, KA8 0BL
OS grid reference
NS 339 221
Coordinates
55.46505, -4.6282
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12-16 George Street in Ayr is a mid-19th century, two-storey terrace comprising two tenements, one with four bays and the other with three bays. The building is constructed of painted sandstone and features a dividing storey band course, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The first-floor windows are adorned with architraves.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central timber door with a letterbox fanlight above it, located in the three-bay section to the right. This section also has flanking shopfronts, while the four-bay section to the right contains three shopfronts at ground level. The first floor has a regular arrangement of windows.

The building has lying-pane and modern windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, and corniced gablehead and ridge stacks, along with polygonal cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998.

Local climate

12-16 George 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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