Description

Early 20th century. 4-storey, 4-bay tenement with commercial shop premises at ground floor. Polished red ashlar; brick to sides. Dentilled shopfront cornice; dentilled cornice; blocking course. Banded pilasters divide bays; consoled pediments to canted outer bays.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern shopfronts at ground; glazed door to No 212; glazed timber door to No 214; timber door to No 216; glazed timber door to No 218; letterbox fanlights to all; shop windows (not to No 216). 2 single windows to central bays (consoled cornices to 2nd floor) at upper floors; single windows to canted outer bays at upper floors.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with 4- and 6-panes to upper sashes. Grey slate roof; stone skews; corniced gablehead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Dominant 4-storey building in the predominantly 2- and 3-storey High Street. In photograph dated 1905 in OLD AYR (p25) an earlier 2-storey building occupies site of present building.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77773938

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Recommended Books

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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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)