Post Office, 29 Alloway, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office, 29 Alloway, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- sombre-finial-cedar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Address
- Post Office, 29 Alloway, Ayr, KA7 4PY
- OS grid reference
- NS 335 185
- Coordinates
- 55.43287, -4.633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21 Alloway in Ayr is a two-storey, two-bay terrace of gabled cottages designed by James K Hunter in 1903. The building features painted harl and has advanced cat-slide roofs with paired entrance porches. It includes low boundary walls with supporting columns, timber eaves, and decorative rainwater openings that connect the gables at the eaves.
On the northwest entrance elevation, there is a glazed timber door leading to the entrance porch of No 21. The bay to the left has been altered to create a shop entrance with a glazed timber door, and there is a bipartite window above it on the first floor. No 23 has a glazed timber door and a tripartite window at ground level, with a bipartite window above on the first floor. The ground floor of No 25 has an infilled entrance porch with a timber door, a split letterbox fanlight, and a single window to the left; there is also a bipartite window and a single window to the left with an advanced canted return, and a bipartite window on the first floor. To the left of No 27 is a timber glazed door, with a tripartite window to the right at ground level and a bipartite window aligned above on the first floor. No 29 has an altered shopfront featuring a glazed timber door to the right and shop windows to the left, with a bipartite window on the first floor. The ground floor bay of No 31 has a timber door to the left and a single window, with a tripartite window to the right and a bipartite window aligned above on the first floor.
The southwest and northeast elevations are gabled and blank, while the southeast elevation was not visible in 1999. The cottages predominantly feature 8-pane timber sash and case windows, although some modern glazing has been introduced. The roof is covered with rosemary tiles and includes stone skews, rooflights, coped ridge and gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.
The interiors were not seen in 1999. The property is enclosed by predominantly iron railings atop a low coped boundary wall that surrounds the entrance elevation.
Local climate
Post Office, 29 Alloway, 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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