17 Cathcart Street (Flats A-N), Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. 1 related planning application.
17 Cathcart Street (Flats A-N), Ayr
- WRENN ID
- veiled-chamber-grain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Address
- 17 Cathcart Street (Flats A-N), Ayr, KA7 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 335 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46413, -4.63407
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at 17 Cathcart Street in Ayr is a former relief church, constructed in 1816. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, featuring a near rectangular plan and a pedimented design. The exterior is made of sandstone rubble and includes a base course, eaves course, cornice, blocking course, and strip quoins. The windows have segmental-headed openings with narrow margins.
On the southwest entrance elevation, the central three bays are advanced and pedimented. This features a pedimented doorpiece with a triglyph frieze, flanked by columns that support a glazed timber door and a letterbox fanlight. Pilasters are positioned beside the side-lights, and there is a single window above on the first floor, along with an architraved oculus in the pediment. The flanking bays have regular fenestration.
The southeast side elevation consists of three bays with regular fenestration at the ground, first, and attic floors. The first floor has segmental-headed openings, while the ground floor features relieving arches. Square windows flank a central cartwheel opening in the attic. There is a single-storey porch on the outer right with a glazed timber door and fanlight.
The northwest elevation, facing Fort Street, mirrors the southeast elevation but lacks the entrance porch. The northeast side elevation has five bays with regular fenestration on the ground and first floors. A central window on the ground floor has been converted into a glazed timber door with side-lights. There is an adjoining lean-to on the outer left, with a timber door and fanlight at ground level, and a single window aligned above to the right. An exterior railed stair leads to a timber door on the left.
The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with rooflights, stone skews, gablehead stacks, and polygonal cans.
The boundary wall surrounding the site on the northeast and northwest elevations is coped, with single square-plan gatepiers at both elevations topped with pyramidal caps and modern iron gates.
Local climate
17 Cathcart Street (Flats A-N), 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 — 1 application
- 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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