43 Sandgate, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Former post office.
43 Sandgate, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- young-latch-crow
- 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
- Former post office
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46299, -4.63341
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
43 Sandgate in Ayr is a former Post Office building designed by Walter Wood Robertson in 1893, with alterations and additions made by W T Oldrieve in 1907. This two-storey, four-bay Baronial structure features a conical tower and is constructed from squared and snecked, bull-faced red sandstone, with ashlar quoins. The building has cill courses on both floors and a central string course.
The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, includes a door located in the conical-roofed penultimate bay on the left. This entrance features a pilaster moulded corniced doorpiece, an ovolo-moulded frieze, a two-leaf timber door, and a letterbox fanlight. Above the door, there is a horizontal rectangular light set in a segmental pedimented head. The first floor has two narrow windows, and the tower has a rope-moulded string course at the lower frieze, topped with a finial at the apex.
To the outer left, there are single windows at both the ground and first floors, with the first-floor window breaking the eaves to form a gable that features a decorative roundel in the tympanum. The penultimate bay to the right has an advanced crow-stepped gable, with a pair of two-light mullioned and transomed windows at the ground floor and a corbelled three-light mullioned and transomed window at the first floor. This bay also has a segmental pediment broken by an armorial panel, along with another segmental pediment above.
The outer right bay features an advanced ground floor corbelled two-light mullioned and transomed window with a pedimented head, and a first-floor two-light transomed and mullioned window that breaks the eaves to form a gable, complete with finials at the apex and skews. Between the penultimate and outer bay on the right, there is an ogee-roofed cupola topped with a ball finial.
The building showcases a variety of small-pane glazing patterns in its timber windows. The roof is made of grey slate, featuring crow-stepped skews, wallhead stacks, and circular cans. Inside, the interior has been much altered but retains original ceiling beams and a dentilled frieze.
Local climate
43 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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