8 Sandgate, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 January 1980. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
8 Sandgate, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- south-courtyard-dale
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 8 Sandgate, Ayr, KA7 1BH
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 220
- Coordinates
- 55.46406, -4.63286
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Sandgate in Ayr is an early 19th-century, three-storey, two-bay tenement that is part of a short terrace and includes commercial premises on the ground floor. The entrance elevation features painted ashlar. The shopfront has a mutuled cornice, and there are eaves courses, cornices, and a blocking course. The upper floor windows have architraves and cill blocks, with cornices on the first floor.
On the southeast (entrance) elevation, the entrance is located on the outer right and consists of a two-leaf timber glazed door with a letterbox fanlight, while a shop window is to the left. The upper floors have regular fenestration.
The ground floor has a shop window, and the upper floors feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are stone skews and coped gablehead stacks, with the right stack being abbreviated and circular cans.
Inside, the building has an ovolo frieze and a dentilled ceiling cornice, along with decorative ceiling roundels.
Local climate
8 Sandgate, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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