71-73 High Street, Ayr

71-73 High Street in Ayr is a mid-18th century tenement building that has undergone later alterations. It stands three stories high with an attic and features a rectangular plan, including a ground floor shop. The exterior is harled, and there is a modillion cornice above the shopfront.

On the east elevation, there is a modern shopfront entrance on the outer right, which includes an aluminium glazed door and a letterbox fanlight. To the outer left, there is a timber door with a rectangular-grid letterbox fanlight, and a shop window is situated between these two entrances. Above the shopfront, to the right, there are early 20th-century canted bays on the first floor, while the left side has a single recessed window with margins. The second floor features three irregularly spaced windows, and there is a single window at the attic level in the gablehead.

The first-floor windows are 12-pane timber windows, while the second floor and attic have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped brick stacks with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.