18, 20, 22 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. 1 related planning application.
18, 20, 22 Newmarket Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- woven-wattle-meadow
- 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
- 18, 20, 22 Newmarket Street, Ayr, KA7 1LP
- OS grid reference
- NS 337 219
- Coordinates
- 55.46328, -4.63109
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18, 20, and 22 Newmarket Street in Ayr is a later 18th century tenement building that was altered in the mid-19th century. It is two stories high with an attic and features three bays. The exterior is rendered with rubble on the sides, and the first-floor windows have chamfered surrounds and cills.
The entrance elevation faces southeast and includes a central entrance with a timber door and a letterbox fanlight. On either side of the entrance are shopfronts; to the left is a glazed timber door and to the right is a shop window. The shopfront to the left also has a central glazed timber door and a letterbox fanlight, flanked by shop windows. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there are two piended dormers in the attic.
The first-floor windows are plate glass timber sash and case, while the attic windows are four-pane. The roof is covered with grey slate and features coped brick stacks with circular cans. The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
18, 20, 22 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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