85-87 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
85-87 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- fallow-jamb-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 85-87 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1QL
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46295, -4.63068
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
85-87 High Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century building that was remodeled on the first floor in the mid-19th century. It is a three-storey, three-bay shop featuring modern fittings at the ground floor and is constructed of painted ashlar. There is a band course that separates the ground and first floors, along with a corniced band course dividing the first and second floors, and a cornice at the top with a blocking course.
On the northeast elevation, there is a central entrance to the shop at the ground floor, which includes a two-leaf glazed timber door with a letterbox fanlight and flanking shop windows. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with round-arched, keyblocked windows on the first floor that feature banded rustication below the springing line, and architraved windows on the second floor.
The upper storeys have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features stone skews, coped brick stacks, and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
85-87 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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