Nos 12,14 and 15 Wellington Square, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Nos 12,14 and 15 Wellington Square, Ayr

WRENN ID
swift-ember-stoat
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NS 333 218
Coordinates
55.4617, -4.63717
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Nos 12, 14, and 15 Wellington Square in Ayr are early 19th century classical houses that form part of a mirrored pair within a terrace. These two-storey buildings, which also have an attic and basement, are constructed of painted ashlar. The basement features banded rustication, and there are band courses at the ground floor, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are architraved, with square brackets at the lower cill corners of the ground floor windows and cornices above the ground floor openings.

On the south (entrance) elevation, there are central stepped platts that oversail the basements, leading to double entrances with timber and glazed timber doors at the centre of each pair. The penultimate bay to the left is a window. Above the doors is decorative looped work, with flanking single windows. The first floor has regular fenestration, featuring two canted dormers at the centre and a single dormer to the outer right in the attic. The basement contains four single windows in the centre and two single windows in the outer bays, along with glazed timber doors at the re-entrant angles, while the bay to the outer left has boarded timber. The windows are predominantly plate glass timber sash and case, with four-pane windows in the attic dormers on the outer left and right, and twelve-pane windows in the basement on the outer left. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring coped stacks and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is also complemented by railings and gates, which consist of ashlar copes topped with spear-headed iron railings, with urn finials marking the sections. There are two gates at the central bays and single gates at the outer left and right.

Local climate

Nos 12,14 and 15 Wellington Square, 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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