156 High Street, Ayr

156 High Street in Ayr is a building designed by H V Eaglesham in 1893. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features a near-symmetrical four-bay layout, highlighted by gabled central bays and incorporating Jacobean and Flemish Renaissance design elements. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar stone.

Notable architectural features include moulded cill courses for the first and second-floor windows, which are interrupted at the outer bays of the second floor. There is a moulded central frieze and three plaques integrated into the design. The bays are divided by banded pilasters, which are fluted at the second floor. The pilasters flanking the central bays extend upwards to form chimneys with arched panels. The central bays are topped with banded stepped and scrolled Flemish gables, and the left gable features a bowed balconied aedicule with a pierced circular pinnacle, while the right gable has an oculus.

The first floor has three-light keystoned arched windows with transoms and mullions, while the second floor features banded, architraved windows, except for the outer bays.

On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a near-central entrance leading to a modern shop, with two bays to the left that include a glazed modern door and flanking shop windows. A wide elliptical arch with banded rustication leads to Nile Court in the penultimate bay to the right. There is also a central entrance to another modern shop on the outer right, featuring a two-leaf glazed aluminium door and flanking shop windows. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with single windows in the outer bays and varying window arrangements in the central bays. Ionic columns frame the outer bay windows on the first floor, and oculus mouldings are present in the spandrels. Pilasters flank shouldered three-light windows in the outer bays on the second floor, although the balconies have been removed. The remaining bays have two-light windows, with a single window at the centre of the penultimate bay to the left. The outer left and right bays have infilled segmental attic windows.

The second floor features plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes wallhead and apex stacks with circular cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998.