77-81 High Street, Ayr

77-81 High Street in Ayr is a three-storey, seven-bay classical bank building dating from 1844, with alterations made by Baird and Thomson from Glasgow in 1894 and additional later changes. The building has a rectangular plan and features rounded corner angles. It is constructed of painted ashlar and painted render, with a base course, a corniced band course, and a balustraded parapet that includes panels in the second and sixth bays of the east elevation and the central bay of the north elevation. The building is topped with a cornice.

On the east elevation, the entrance is flanked by double pilasters and features a central entrance with a two-leaf glazed timber door, a square fanlight, and sidelights. There are two single windows on either side of the entrance. The first and second floors have regular fenestration.

The west (rear) elevation is four bays and has an irregular alignment. It includes a consoled, corniced, block-pedimented doorpiece in the penultimate bay to the left, with a two-leaf timber door and a narrow letterbox fanlight above. Three single windows are aligned above this door. There are single windows at the ground and first floors in the outer left bay and a bipartite window at the second floor. The penultimate bay to the right has two single windows at the ground and one each at the first and second floors. The outer right bay features a tripartite window at the ground level, with a smaller, blind window to the right, and two single windows at the first and second floors.

The north elevation, facing Newmarket Street, has three bays with three single windows at the ground floor and a two-leaf timber door with a large square fanlight to the outer right. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, although there are blind windows in the left bay.

The south side elevation also has three bays, with pilasters dividing the bays at the ground level and an advanced panel with ball finials at the corniced band course. The fenestration is regular across all floors, except for a pedimented bipartite window at the first floor, which features acroterion motifs.

The building predominantly has plate glass timber sash and case windows, with some six- and four-pane glazing in the upper sashes of the west elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features corniced wallhead stacks on the outer left and right of the west elevation, along with circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998.