119-121 High Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

119-121 High Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
stark-lantern-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NS 337 218
Coordinates
55.46249, -4.63034
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

123 High Street in Ayr is a classical bank building designed by Peddie & Washington Browne, constructed between 1901 and 1902, with later alterations. It is a three-storey structure with seven bays, arranged in a 2-3-2 grouping, and is finished in polished ashlar. The three central bays are set forward and topped with a pediment. The ground floor features banded rustication, and the first and second floors are adorned with fluted giant Ionic pilasters. There are balustraded aprons on the first floor, an elaborate crest in the tympanum, a frieze, a modillioned cornice, and a parapet. The corners of the building are accentuated with raised quoins.

On the northeast elevation, there is a modern shopfront at the ground level, with three central round-arched openings that extend to full height. The central entrance has a two-leaf timber door with a fanlight above it, while the flanking entrances on the left and right feature flat voussoirs and modern glazed doors. The upper storeys have regular fenestration, with corniced windows in the central three bays on the first floor and architraved windows in the same bays on the second floor.

The upper storeys are fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features corniced stacks with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

119-121 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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