162-170 High Street, Ayr

162-170 High Street in Ayr is a three-storey, three-bay classical building designed by John Mercer in 1885. The exterior features polished ashlar stone and includes a modern shopfront at ground level. Above the shopfront, there is a cornice, and the building is topped with a balustraded parapet that has dies and obelisk finials marking each bay. The outer bays have twin-scrolled wallhead stacks. The bays are divided by banded rusticated pilaster strips, which flank Doric half pilasters. The upper floors have architraved windows.

On the southwest elevation, the central entrance leads to the shop on the ground floor, which has three pairs of glazed modern two-leaf doors and flanking shop windows. The first and second floors feature regular fenestration with two single windows in each bay. The central bay on the first floor has consoled cornices, while the outer bays have consoled pediments. The second-floor windows have bracketed cills.

The upper floors have four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof, which was not visible in 1998, features two twin scrolled wallhead stacks. The interior was not seen in 1998.