52-54 Fort Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.

52-54 Fort Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 January 1980
Type
House
Address
52-54 Fort Street, Ayr, KA7 1DE
OS grid reference
NS 335 219
Coordinates
55.4626, -4.63485
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

52-54 Fort Street in Ayr is a pair of nearly rectangular-plan houses built in the earlier 19th century. The buildings are two stories tall with an attic and a basement, featuring a total of seven bays. The west elevation is finished with painted render and includes a base course, eaves course, cornice, and blocking course. The window openings have cills, with ribbing present at the first floor.

The entrance elevation on the west side has consoled cornices above paired doorpieces in the fourth and fifth bays, although there are no exterior doors. Above these, there are two single windows aligned at the first floor. The remaining bays display regular fenestration on both the ground and first floors, with basement openings located to the right. The attic features four canted dormers.

The ground and first floors are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the attic has plate glass windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the stone skews are cranked to the south, with corniced gablehead stacks. The interiors were not seen in 1998.

Local climate

52-54 Fort 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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