53-55 Newmarket Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
53-55 Newmarket Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- buried-span-finch
- 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
- Address
- 53-55 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LL
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46319, -4.63227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
53-55 Newmarket Street in Ayr is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay tenement building that features shops on the ground floor. The exterior is finished in painted render, with a cornice above the shopfronts and strip quoin detailing on the outer left side. The first-floor windows have painted margins.
On the northeast elevation, there is a central doorpiece from the later 19th century, which includes a segmental pediment and lugged architrave, along with nailhead spandrels beneath the hoodmould. The door is made of timber and has a letterbox fanlight above it. Flanking the entrance are shops on the ground floor, with a modern aluminium glazed door to the right of the left shop and a shop window to the left. The right shop features a glazed modern door to the left and a shop window to the right. The first floor has regular fenestration.
The first-floor windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, and the outer left window has a louvred upper sash. The roof is covered in grey slate and includes rooflights, stone skews, and coped stacks, with the outer right stack being stepped and featuring polygonal cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
53-55 Newmarket 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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