212 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
212 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- calm-tallow-clover
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1999
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 212 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1RQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 217
- Coordinates
- 55.46123, -4.62869
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
212 High Street in Ayr is an early 20th-century, four-storey, four-bay tenement building that features commercial shop premises on the ground floor. The exterior is made of polished red ashlar with brick on the sides. Notable architectural details include a dentilled cornice above the shopfront, a dentilled cornice at the top of the building, and a blocking course. The bays are divided by banded pilasters, and the outer bays have consoled pediments that are canted.
On the southwest elevation, the ground floor has modern shopfronts. There is a glazed door for No 212, a glazed timber door for No 214, a timber door for No 216, and a glazed timber door for No 218, all featuring letterbox fanlights. The shop windows are present except for No 216. The upper floors have two single windows in the central bays, which have consoled cornices above them on the second floor, and single windows in the canted outer bays.
The building predominantly features timber sash and case windows, with four- and six-pane configurations in the upper sashes. The roof is made of grey slate and includes stone skews, corniced gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
212 High 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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