116 And 118 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
116 And 118 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- carved-eave-sage
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 116 And 118 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1PQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46294, -4.62981
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
116 and 118 High Street in Ayr is a three-storey, three-bay Edwardian Renaissance corner building designed by J K Hunter in 1905. The exterior features polished red ashlar stone and has a modern shopfront at ground level. The ground floor has a cornice, with a mutulated cornice that is interrupted by a central bay, which rises to form a segmental pediment with a stack to the left. The cornice is also broken at the outer left and right by pillars that rise to pedestals topped with urns. Sculpted apron panels connect the windows vertically between the first and second floors.
On the west elevation, there is a central entrance to the shop at ground level, which has modern glazed doors and letterbox fanlights, flanked by shop windows. The outer left features a canted pillar. The first and second floors have single windows in the off-centre middle bay, with a keystoned window at the second floor, while the flanking bowed bays have tripartite windows.
The north elevation, known as Kirk Port, has six bays. It features two timber doors in the lower height section to the outer left and a timber door in the higher section to the left, along with a single window at the first floor and a bipartite window at the second floor. The three bays to the right have single windows at both the first and second floors, with a continuous cornice extending from the west elevation, except for the bipartite windows in the left bay. There is also a shop window at ground level on the outer right.
The building has timber sash and case windows, with six panes in the upper sashes and predominantly four panes on the north elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features wallhead stacks with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
116 And 118 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 — 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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