Description

Mid 19th century to left (3 bays), with alterations by Murdoch and Lockhart, 1909 to right (4 bays). 3-storey, 7-bay (grouped 3-4) Beige ashlar. Freestyle tenement with modern shop at ground floor. 2nd floor cill course; finialled wallhead balustrade flanked by dies and supporting scrolls. Moulded windows; corniced at 1st floor to 3-bay group to left; central window pedimented.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern shop at ground floor; 2 pairs of 2-leaf glazed doors to entrance to right. Pilaster strips frame central 2 bays to 4-bay group to right, rising to finialed balustrade. 2 single windows at 1st and 2nd floors; single windows flanking at 2nd floor only; regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors to 3-bay group to left.

4-pane timber sash and case windows to left, timber casement glazing to right. Grey slate roof; coped stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Part of ground floor shop included in Nos 207 and 209 (see separate list description). 1905 photograph in OLD AYR shows earlier 2-storey building to 4-bays to right, and classical form to 3-bays to left, as yet unaltered to match later building to right. Now forms part of Kyle Shopping Centre.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626197

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)