51 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Shop. 2 related planning applications.

51 High Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
quiet-basalt-gilt
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Shop
Address
51 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1LU
OS grid reference
NS 337 220
Coordinates
55.46372, -4.63088
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

51 High Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay shop featuring modern fittings on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in polished beige ashlar and includes a band course, cornice, and a die on the left side only. The first-floor windows have cornices, while the second-floor windows are framed with moulded surrounds.

The entrance elevation has a glazed modern door to the shop on the right, a shop window in the center, and a rusticated entrance with a keystone on the left. The first and second floors have regular window arrangements.

The first and second floors are fitted with plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features stone skews.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

51 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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