75 High Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 5 related planning applications.
75 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- pitched-thatch-root
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 75 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1NB
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.4634, -4.6304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
75 High Street in Ayr is a baronial tenement building designed by Allan Stevenson in 1886. It is three stories tall and has two bays, featuring a corbelled corner bay and a rectangular plan with crowstepped gables. The exterior is made of squared, snecked, and stugged beige sandstone, with corbelling and crenellated links to the gables, as well as water spouts.
On the entrance elevation, the corbelled corner bay is located on the outer left. The second floor has single windows on all faces, with strapwork above them, and square-headed finials at the gablehead. The ground floor has a modern shopfront, with an entrance to the left that includes a glazed timber door and a letterbox fanlight, while shop windows are situated to the right. The gabled bay on the outer right features single windows on the first and second floors, with a hoodmould over the first-floor window and a plaque beneath it. The second-floor window has brackets, a cornice, and strapwork. There is also a bipartite window on the first floor of the bay to the left, with strapwork above and a square plaque aligned above it on the second floor.
The Newmarket Street elevation has two gabled bays, with the right bay being asymmetrical and a corbelled corner bay on the outer right. The ground floor features modern shopfront windows. On the first floor, there is a bipartite window with a pedimented windowhead on the outer left, and a single hoodmoulded window aligned above it on the second floor, along with a square plaque on the gablehead dated AD 1886. A corbelled canopy niche containing a statue of William Wallace is located to the right on the first floor, with a small round-arched window to the left and a single hoodmoulded window aligned above it on the second floor. Additionally, there is a two-light canted oriel window to the left of the corbelled corner bay on the first floor.
The upper floors feature plate glass timber sash and case windows, except for a four-pane window in the corbelled corner bay on the second floor. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes gablehead stacks and circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
75 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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