162-170 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
162-170 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- roaming-cobalt-spindle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Commercial
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Mercer, 1885. 3-storey, 3-bay classical block with modern shopfront at ground. Polished ashlar. Cornice to shopfront; cornice; balustraded parapet with dies and obelisk finials marking bays; twin-scrolled wallhead stacks to centre of outer bays. Banded rusticated pilaster strips divide bays, flanking Doric half pilasters. Architraved windows at upper floors.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance to shop at ground floor; 3 pairs of glazed modern 2-leaf doors; flanking shop windows. Regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors (2 single windows to each bay); consoled cornices to central bay at 1st floor, consoled pediments to outer bays; bracketed cills to 2nd floor windows.
4-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Roof (unseen 1998); 2 twin scrolled wallhead stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Detailed Attributes
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