Newton Tower, Main Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Tower. 1 related planning application.

Newton Tower, Main Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
keen-passage-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Tower
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

  1. Single bay, 5-stage square-plan tower with octagonal spire. Painted render with painted margins. Band courses delineate 1st and 2nd stages to W elevation; string courses delineate remaining stages to all elevations; ball finials to angles at base of spire; louvred openings to principal spire faces; weather-vane finial.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: elliptical-arched central pend; single windows aligned above to 2nd and 3rd stages (3rd stage window round-arched); octagonal opening at 4th stage; clock face at 5th stage;

E (KING STREET, REAR) ELEVATION: elliptical-arched central pend; single window aligned above at 2nd stage. Clock face at 5th stage.

N & S (KING STREET, SIDE) ELEVATIONS: clock faces to 5th stages.

Timber windows; stone spire.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GATES: 2-leaf iron gate to W elevation.

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