15, 17 Sandgate, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.
15, 17 Sandgate, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- shifting-barrel-wind
- 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
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46368, -4.63212
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
15 and 17 Sandgate in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay tenement building that includes commercial premises on the ground floor. The building is painted and features a mutuled shopfront cornice, cill courses on the upper floors, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows have architrave surrounds, with the first-floor windows being corniced. The ground floor is delineated by pilasters that mark the bays.
On the northwest (entrance) elevation, there are entrances at the outer right and left. The outer left entrance has a timber door with a letterbox fanlight, while the outer right features a recessed glazed timber door with a narrow letterbox fanlight. The central area has a shop window and a deep shopfront fascia above. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The upper floors are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes a rooflight, stone skews, and abbreviated gablehead stacks. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
15, 17 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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