2 Alloway Place, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. 3 related planning applications.
2 Alloway Place, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- distant-gargoyle-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 334 216
- Coordinates
- 55.46007, -4.63546
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Alloway Place in Ayr is a terrace of five houses designed by James Paton in the early 19th century. The building is two stories high, with attics at the rear, and features a three-bay layout. It is constructed of polished ashlar, with coursed sandstone on the sides and a rusticated ground floor. The exterior includes a vermiculated base course, a band course that runs parallel to the block-pediments of the doorpieces, a first-floor cill course, aprons, a cornice, and a blocking course.
The entrance elevation has steps leading up to the block-pedimented columned doorpieces on the left bay of each house. These doorpieces feature fluted columns and a modillion cornice, with timber doors that are two-leaf for Nos 2 and 3. No 4 has a letterbox fanlight with three lights, while there are two single windows to the right at ground level and regular fenestration on the first floor.
The north side elevation has a single window to the right at ground level and two single windows on the first floor, with a boundary wall to the outer right. The south side elevation features steps leading to a recessed entrance for No 5A (Pladda View), which has a modern glazed door and a single window aligned above on the first floor. There are infilled openings in the left bay at both ground and first floors, along with a boundary wall to the outer left.
The windows throughout the building are plate glass timber sash and case, with textured glazing on the first-floor windows of the north elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone skews, rooflights, and coped stacks, with the stacks on the left being of lower height and including circular and polygonal cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998. The boundary walls have low ashlar copes on the east elevation.
Local climate
2 Alloway Place, 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 — 3 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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