8 Cathcart Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
8 Cathcart Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- mired-glass-linden
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 8 Cathcart Street, Ayr, KA7 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 335 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46382, -4.63373
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Cathcart Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay tenement that is part of a terrace and features shopfronts on the ground floor. The building has a painted render finish and includes a base course, eaves course, cornice, blocking course, and strip margins. The window openings on the upper floors have painted margins.
On the northeast elevation, there are steps leading to a central doorpiece with columns and a cornice, topped with a block pediment. It features a patera frieze, but there is no exterior door, only a letterbox fanlight. Above this, single windows are aligned on the first and second floors. The ground, first, and second floors each have single windows flanking the central doorpiece, with larger shop windows on the ground floor, which are wider on the left side. The shop windows have Edwardian timber architraves.
The ground floor shop windows are fitted with modern glazing in two windows on the left side of the first floor, while the right side has a six-pane upper sash window. The second floor features plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews and coped brick stacks with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
8 Cathcart 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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