30 Alloway Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Department store.
30 Alloway Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- calm-granite-martin
- 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
- Department store
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 215
- Coordinates
- 55.45959, -4.6291
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30 Alloway Street in Ayr is a three-storey, four-bay section of a department store designed by Allan Stevenson in 1895. The building is constructed of polished red ashlar and features a marble shop fascia, a dividing band course between the first and second floors, an eaves course, a cornice, and a balustrade with round-arched balusters.
The entrance elevation has a recessed entrance located at the ground level of the penultimate bay on the right, which includes four glazed doors and shop windows on either side. There are two single windows in the central bays on both the first and second floors, with a corniced plaque positioned between them on the first floor. A datestone from 1895 is set into the frieze, and a scrolled corniced wallhead stack is aligned above. The outer bays are canted on both the first and second floors, and a castellated parapet rises from the balustrade on the outer left bay.
The ground floor features shop windows, while the upper sashes of the first and second floors have four-pane windows. The roof is not visible, but it includes corniced wallhead and gablehead stacks, as well as circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
30 Alloway 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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