3, 5 South Harbour Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House.
3, 5 South Harbour Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- upper-vestry-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46492, -4.63219
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 and 5 South Harbour Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay house that is part of a terrace overlooking the New Bridge. The building features painted render and has cill courses on the first and second floors, along with a corniced band course that separates these floors, which was once a cornice. The upper floors have tripartite openings, although the left section is blocked to the central bay.
The northeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central doorpiece with columns, a cornice, and a pediment. It includes a two-leaf timber door with a letterbox fanlight. To the right, there is a central entrance to a modern shopfront with flanking shop windows, and to the left, another central entrance leads to a shopfront with a two-leaf timber door, a deep letterbox fanlight, and flanking shop windows. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The southwest elevation, known as the Boat Vennal, has five bays and also features regular fenestration on the first and second floors. The ground floor has modern shop windows, while the upper floors have plate glass timber sash and case windows, with some remaining 12-pane windows at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes a rooflight, a corniced stack to the right, and circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
3, 5 South Harbour 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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