158-160 High Street, Ayr

158-160 High Street in Ayr is a late 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay classical tenement featuring a modern shopfront at ground level. The building is constructed of polished ashlar and includes a cornice above the shopfront, banded rustication up to half-window height on the first floor, a cill course on the second floor, a banded frieze, a cornice, and a balustraded parapet with a pedimented central panel. There are giant flanking pilasters on the outer left and right.

The southwest entrance elevation has a central entrance to the shop at ground level, which includes a two-leaf glazed modern door with a letterbox fanlight, flanked by shop windows. There is a recessed timber door on the outer right. The upper floors feature regular fenestration with consoled pediments above the first-floor windows, and the architraves rise from the termination of the banded rustication.

The upper floors have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof, which was not visible in 1998, has coped brick stacks and circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.