Tam O'shanter Inn, 230 High Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Tam O'shanter Inn, 230 High Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- last-wall-brook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Tam O'shanter Inn, 230 High Street, Ayr, KA7 1RQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 338 217
- Coordinates
- 55.46087, -4.6286
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Tam O'Shanter Inn, located at 230 High Street in Ayr, was rebuilt in 1808 and is a two-storey, three-bay inn. The building features painted and rendered walls, a base course, and a corniced fascia that displays the name 'Tam O' Shanter Inn' with painted margins around the window openings.
On the southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a central doorpiece with pilasters and a cornice. The entrance consists of a two-leaf timber boarded door topped with an elaborate iron-work lantern and a framed picture above on the first floor. There are single windows on either side of the entrance at both the ground and first floors, with the left-hand window at the ground floor being enlarged and the first-floor windows being smaller. Carved heads are positioned beneath the outer windows between the ground and first floors.
The northeast elevation features single-storey lean-to ancillary structures with slated roofs. The inn has twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, a reed roof with a turf ridge, and mutual gablehead chimney stacks with circular cans.
Inside, the inn includes a stone floor, timber ceiling beams, a fireplace, and a plaque.
Local climate
Tam O'shanter Inn, 230 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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