33-35 Sandgate, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Renaissance tenement. 4 related planning applications.

33-35 Sandgate, Ayr

WRENN ID
open-cobble-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
Renaissance tenement
OS grid reference
NS 336 220
Coordinates
55.46359, -4.63266
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

33-35 Sandgate in Ayr is a mid-19th century, three-storey and attic, five-bay Renaissance tenement. The building is painted and features a base course, a modillion cornice above the shopfront, a cill course on the second floor, an eaves course, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet with dies. The façade includes pilaster strip quoins and an arcade of round-arched windows on the first floor, with channelled pilasters at the springing line.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a timber door with a letterbox fanlight to the outer right. There is a recessed central entrance to the shop on the ground floor, flanked by pilastered shop windows, and a multi-paned letterbox fanlight above. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with the central window on the second floor being blind. The attic features two canted dormers.

The shop windows on the ground floor are multi-paned in the upper section. The first floor has 12-pane timber sash and case windows with fanlights above the springing line. The second floor has plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the attic has 4-pane timber sash and case windows, with 2-pane windows on the canted sides. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a gablehead stack to the right, along with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

33-35 Sandgate, 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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