Customs House, 2 Fort Street, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1977. Custom house.
Customs House, 2 Fort Street, Ayr
- WRENN ID
- inner-chamber-meadow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1977
- Type
- Custom house
- OS grid reference
- NS 336 221
- Coordinates
- 55.46479, -4.6334
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Customs House, located at 2 Fort Street in Ayr, is an early 19th-century, two-storey and attic building that features a double-bow front. Constructed from sandstone ashlar with rubble on the sides and rear, it has a base course, cill courses on the ground and first floors, a central band course, a cornice, and a blocking course. The building has tripartite windows in the bowed bays.
On the northwest (entrance) elevation, there is a step leading to a central entrance with a two-leaf timber door and a letterbox fanlight above. A blind window is aligned above on the first floor, with regular fenestration in the flanking bowed bays on both the ground and first floors, although the inner sections of the ground floor windows are blind. The attic features canted dormers on the outer right and left sides.
The southwest (side) elevation has a blank gable. The building includes plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a rooflight, stone skews, and brick gablehead stacks with circular and polygonal cans.
The interior was not seen in 1998. There is a low coped boundary wall enclosing the site on the northwest elevation and a higher stepped boundary wall on the southeast elevation.
Local climate
Customs House, 2 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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