35-45 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. 3 related planning applications.
35-45 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- spare-cinder-plover
- 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
- 35-45 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1LU
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46391, -4.63078
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
35-45 High Street in Ayr is a late 19th-century building that underwent alterations by J K Hunter in 1903. It features a three-storey, five-bay symmetrical curved corner block with shops on the ground floor. The entrance elevation is finished in polished red ashlar, while the sides are constructed from rubble. A cornice separates the first and second floors, and there is a blocking course with a rectangular panel above the central bay, along with dies on the outer left and right. Wide pilasters separate the bays, with double consoles on the frieze above, and narrower pilasters dividing the windows.
On the northeast (entrance) elevation, there are central entrances for Nos 35 (with a modern glazed door), 37 (with a timber door), 37B (with a modern glazed door), and 39 (with a glazed timber door) at ground level. Each upper floor bay has a regular three-window arrangement, except for the central bay, which has a single window.
The first and second floors feature plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there is a stack at the gablehead to the right. The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
35-45 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 — 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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