23-25 South Harbour Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.
23-25 South Harbour Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- silent-cloister-rye
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 335 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46506, -4.63389
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
23-25 South Harbour Street in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey and attic tenement building with a rectangular plan, located on a corner site. It features a single-storey addition on the outer right. The building is finished in painted render, with squared and snecked red sandstone on the outer right. Architectural details include an eaves course, cornice, and strip quoins, along with painted margins around the window openings.
On the northeast elevation, there is a timber door at the central entrance, with a boarded entrance to the right and flanking boarded openings. To the left, there is a recessed shop entrance with a modern glazed door and flanking shop windows, along with a shopfront fascia above. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, although the upper panes are blocked at the first floor in the centre and right. The attic features canted dormers on the outer left and right. The single-storey, five-bay section on the outer right has a timber door in the penultimate bay and boarded window openings in the remaining bays.
The southeast elevation, facing Fort Street, has a single opening at the ground level on the outer left and single windows at the centre and right on the first floor. The predominant windows on the northeast elevation are plate glass timber sash and case, while the southeast elevation features 12-pane windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with stone skews, corniced gablehead stacks, and both circular and polygonal chimney cans.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
23-25 South Harbour 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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