17 River Street, Ayr is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Mission hall. 1 related planning application.

17 River Street, Ayr

WRENN ID
calm-foundation-auburn
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
Mission hall
Address
17 River Street, Ayr, KA8 0AX
OS grid reference
NS 338 222
Coordinates
55.46537, -4.62925
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

17 River Street in Ayr is a former Mission Hall built in 1887 by James Jardine. This two-storey building features three bays and is constructed from squared, coursed sandstone. It has a base course, a dividing string course, and an eaves course.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, is buttressed and gabled with kneelers. It includes a doorpiece with single shafts and a round-arched opening that leads to a two-leaf timber door with a fanlight above. The gablehead is inscribed with '1887 Mission Hall'. Above the entrance, there are two small single windows aligned at the first floor. Flanking both floors are two-light pointed arched transomed windows, which have hoodmoulds and a central roundel for the ground floor windows. The first floor windows also feature roundels that break the eaves to form gablets, and there are square-headed finials.

The building predominantly has fixed pane timber windows, while the central bay at the first floor includes plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a rooflight, terracotta ridge tiles, stone skews and skewputts, as well as brick gablehead stacks with polygonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

17 River 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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