158-160 High Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement.
158-160 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mantel-rowan
- 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
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 218
- Coordinates
- 55.46211, -4.62944
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
158-160 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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