24-30 Smith Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
24-30 Smith Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- drifting-fireplace-moth
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1999
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 24-30 Smith Street, Ayr, KA7 1TF
- OS grid reference
- NS 339 214
- Coordinates
- 55.45861, -4.62723
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24-30 Smith Street in Ayr is a three-storey, five-bay tenement building from the later 19th century, featuring shops on the ground floor and forming part of a terrace. The exterior is finished in polished red ashlar, with banding at the first floor. It includes cill courses at the first and second floors, an eaves course, a cornice, a parapet, strip pilasters on the outer bays, and framing for the central bays.
The southeast entrance elevation has three shops on the ground floor. There is a square-headed pend opening on the outer left, with a glazed timber entrance door to the left of the central shop and a shop window to the right. The flanking shops have inner entrances, each with glazed timber doors and shop windows in the outer bays. The upper floors feature regular fenestration, with bipartite windows in the outer bays.
The upper floors predominantly have plate glass timber sash and case windows, although the three central bays on the first floor have modern windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, with stone skews, a gablehead, and two banded wallhead stacks rising from the parapet, one of which on the right has been dismantled. Circular cans are present as well. The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
24-30 Smith 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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