49 Fort Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. 2 related planning applications.
49 Fort Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- tattered-window-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Address
- 49 Fort Street, Ayr, KA7 1DH
- OS grid reference
- NS 334 218
- Coordinates
- 55.46224, -4.63529
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47 Fort Street in Ayr is a pair of mirrored houses built in 1824 by Thomas King. The buildings are two stories high with an attic and feature four bays. They have a painted render finish, with rubble on the sides, and include a base course, eaves course, cornice, blocking course, and tympany gable.
On the entrance elevation, there are steps leading to a central doorpiece that has a consoled, corniced block-pediment design. The doors are made of timber and have letterbox fanlights, with a geometrical pattern on the fanlight of No 49. The outer bays at ground level have single windows, while the first floor has regular fenestration that is not aligned. The attic features segmental headed dormers on the outer right and left sides.
The ground floor has plate glass timber sash and case windows, the first floor has 12-pane windows, and the attic has 16-pane windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes rooflights, wallhead and gablehead stacks, and circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
49 Fort 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 — 2 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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