1-3 New Bridge Street, Ayr is a Grade A listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Mixed-use building. 5 related planning applications.
1-3 New Bridge Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- winter-sentry-pearl
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Mixed-use building
- Address
- 1-3 New Bridge Street, Ayr, KA7 1JX
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46486, -4.63138
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
1-3 New Bridge 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 — 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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