Description

Late 19th century. 3-storey, 3-bay classical tenement with modern shopfront at ground. Polished ashlar. Cornice to shopfront; banded rustication to half-window height at 1st floor; 2nd floor cill course; banded frieze; cornice; balustraded parapet with pedimented central panel. Giant flanking pilasters to outer left and right.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance to shop at ground; 2-leaf glazed modern door; letterbox fanlight; shop windows flanking; recessed timber door to outer right. Regular fenestration at upper floors; consoled pediments to 1st floor windows, architraves rising from termination of banded rustication.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Roof (unseen 1998); coped brick stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Nos 146-176 High Street were rebuilt on a new set-back street line following the Ayr Burgh Act (1885), which made provision for the widening of the High Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626218

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)