1-3 New Bridge Street, Ayr

1-3 New Bridge Street in Ayr is a three-storey house with an attic and basement, built in 1787 by Alexander Stevens. It is located next to New Bridge and features a double-bowed northeast elevation. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar and includes a base course, cill courses on all floors of the northeast elevation, and a first floor cill course on the northwest elevation. The building has a bracketed cornice and a blocking course on the northwest elevation, along with a quatre-foil balustrade on the northeast elevation. Decorative elements include a geometrical frieze and decorative brackets above the first floor window cornices on the northwest elevation.

On the northwest (entrance) elevation, there is a shopfront at the ground level in the center and to the left, with pilasters dividing the openings. The entrance features timber doors in the right bay and the penultimate bay to the left, including a two-leaf timber door to the left and a single timber door to the right. Decorative letterbox fanlights are present above the doors, and shop windows are located to the left of each entrance. A shopfront fascia is positioned above, and there is a round-arched pend to the outer right. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, while the attic features a tripartite piend-roofed dormer at the outer right.

The northeast (side) elevation showcases two bowed bays with regular three-window fenestration on each bow, although the center bays are blind. There are bipartite dormers in the attic, divided by a central stack. The ground level has shop windows, while the upper floors feature 12- and 18-pane timber sash and case windows on the northwest elevation and 12- and 16-pane timber sash and case windows on the northeast elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended design, along with a rooflight, broad stone skews, and ridge and wallhead corniced stacks. The northwest elevation does not have cans on the wallhead stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1998.