20 Academy Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.
20 Academy Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- small-paling-kestrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46456, -4.63356
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20 Academy Street in Ayr is a two-storey and attic tenement building dating from around 1780. It originally had five bays but now features four. The structure is made of sandstone rubble with painted margins around the openings.
On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there are steps leading to two central round-arched doorways with keyblocked detailing. These doorways have recessed timber doors and decorative fanlights above them. To the outer right, there is a single window, while the two windows to the left have been infilled. The first floor has three single windows, with two of these also infilled. There are two bipartite dormers on the left and a single, lower dormer on the right.
The northwest side elevation includes a relieving arch at the ground level to the outer left. There are three single windows on the ground floor and two single windows each on the first and attic floors, with earlier windows on the ground and first floors having been infilled.
The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane casement windows in the attic and ground floor to the outer left of the northwest elevation. There is also a small opening beside the dormer on the right. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes stone skews, a rooflight, coped stacks, and circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
20 Academy 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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