5 Barns Terrace, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.
5 Barns Terrace, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- stony-rood-mint
- 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 335 215
- Coordinates
- 55.45933, -4.63463
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
9 Barns Terrace in Ayr is a two-storey, 36-bay building designed by Robert Paton between 1845 and 1860, consisting of seven pairs of mirrored houses. The outer pairs and the central pair form slightly advanced pavilions. The entrance elevation features ashlar stonework, with a channelled design at the ground floor. It has a base course, a central band course separating the first and second floors, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course on houses numbered 1, 2, 7, 8, 13, and 14. The first-floor windows have aprons and architraves.
The west entrance elevation has four bays for the outer and central pavilion paired houses, featuring central square-headed doorpieces with timber doors and letterbox fanlights. Above these doors, there are two single windows aligned at the first floor. The advanced outer bays have tripartite windows on both the first and second floors. The intermediate paired houses have six bays, also with central square-headed doorpieces, timber doors, and letterbox fanlights, along with two single windows above at the first floor and regular fenestration in the remaining bays on both floors.
The building predominantly features six-pane timber sash and case windows. It has a grey slate roof, which is piended for houses numbered 1, 2, 7, 8, 13, and 14, and includes corniced ridge and wallhead stacks with polygonal cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998. The site is enclosed by a low coped boundary wall on the west elevation, which includes canted square-plan gatepiers at the outer left and right.
Local climate
5 Barns Terrace, 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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