Latitude: 55.4607 / 55°27'38"N
Longitude: -4.6358 / 4°38'9"W
OS Eastings: 233440
OS Northings: 621701
OS Grid: NS334217
Mapcode National: GBR 39.Y35N
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.R0NK
Plus Code: 9C7QF967+7M
Entry Name: 23 Wellington Square, Ayr
Listing Name: 23 Wellington Square
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394636
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47257
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, 23 Wellington Square
ID on this website: 200394636
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Early 19th century. 2-storey with basement, 3-bay classical house forming part of terrace. Painted ashlar. Ground floor band course; eaves course; cornice; blocking course; strip quoins. Painted margins to window openings.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central stepped platt oversailing basement; corniced, block-pedimented columnar doorpiece; 2-leaf timber door; single window aligned above at 1st floor; glazed timber door aligned below at basement; regular fenestration to flanking bays at basement, ground and 1st floors (Venetian windows at ground floor).
Plate glass timber sash and case windows; 12-pane to outer right window at basement.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
B Group with Nos 1-12 (Inclusive), 16-27 (Inclusive), Sheriff Court (No 14), County Buildings, Monuments to James George Smith Neill, Earl of Eglinton and Wintoun, Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, War Memorial, and Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls. The palace-fronted square as proposed by John Robertson in 1799 was not pursued, instead individual feuars were allowed to develop the square. Mutual eaves course, cornice and blocking course with Nos 21, 22 and 24 (see separate list descriptions).
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