155-157 High Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Tenement. 13 related planning applications.
155-157 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- small-facade-torch
- Grade
- B
- 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
- 155-157 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1QW
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 218
- Coordinates
- 55.46186, -4.62984
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
155-157 High Street in Ayr is a later 19th-century, three-storey, five-bay tenement located on a corner site, featuring modern shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of polished red ashlar, with giant pilasters that separate the bays. It has a triglyph frieze at the cornice and a balustraded parapet with dies and a rectangular panel on the southeast elevation.
On the northeast elevation, there are central entrances leading to modern shopfronts at the ground floor. To the right, there is a two-leaf modern glazed door flanked by shop windows, while to the left, there is a single aluminium glazed door also flanked by shop windows. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The southeast elevation, facing Carrick Street, also has five bays with a modern shopfront at the ground level and regular fenestration on the upper floors, although the central bays are blind. The windows include plate glass (with two panes in the upper sashes) and four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is a grey slate piend, with a modern dormer on the southeast elevation.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
155-157 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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