1 Wellington Square, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House.

1 Wellington Square, Ayr

WRENN ID
scattered-chapel-acorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NS 334 218
Coordinates
55.46164, -4.63529
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Wellington Square in Ayr is an early 19th-century, two-storey house with a basement and attic, forming the end of a terrace. The building is constructed of painted ashlar and features banded rustication at the basement, a band course at the ground floor, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are architraved, with square brackets at the lower cill corners on the ground and first floors, and cornices above the ground floor windows.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central stepped platform that oversails the basement. It includes a corniced, consoled block-pedimented doorpiece with a timber door and a decorative looped letterbox fanlight. Above the door, there is a single window aligned at the first floor, and below, a glazed timber door at the basement level, with a narrow slit window to the left. The flanking bays feature regular fenestration at the basement, ground, and first floors, while the attic has a bipartite dormer on the right.

On the east side elevation, there is a single central window at the basement, with regular fenestration at the ground and first floors, topped by a broken pediment. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, with plate glass in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone skews, coped stacks, and circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property also includes railings and a gate, with ashlar copes topped by spear-headed iron railings, and urn finials marking the sections, with a gate located to the outer right.

Local climate

1 Wellington Square, 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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