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Latitude: 55.4625 / 55°27'44"N
Longitude: -4.6303 / 4°37'49"W
OS Eastings: 233795
OS Northings: 621884
OS Grid: NS337218
Mapcode National: GBR 39.XY60
Mapcode Global: WH2PP.VY8R
Plus Code: 9C7QF969+XV
Entry Name: 119-121 High Street, Ayr
Listing Name: 123 High Street
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 356991
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21610
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Peddie & Washington Browne, 1901-2, with later alterations. 3-storey, 7-bay (grouped 2-3-2), classical bank. Polished ashlar. 3 central bays advanced and pedimented; banded rustication at ground, 1st and 2nd floor fluted giant Ionic pilasters; balustraded aprons at 1st floor; elaborate crest to tympanum; frieze; modillioned cornice; parapet. Raised quoins.
NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern shopfront at ground, 3 central round-arched full-height openings, 2-leaf timber door at centre with fanlight; flat voussoirs to flanking entrances to outer left and right; 2-leaf modern glazed doors; flanking shop windows. Regular fenestration at upper storeys; corniced windows to central 3 bays at 1st floor; architraved windows to central 3 bays at 2nd floor.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows at upper storeys. Grey slate roof; corniced stacks; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Plaque to central section reads "Near this place stood the garden of John Welch, minister of Ayr, 1600-1606." The building he resided in was demolished in 1895. Former British Linen Bank.
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