Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

1 BARNS STREET, BERKELEY HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLSLB21499

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000020 - see notes
Date Added
05/02/1971
Local Authority
South Ayrshire
Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Burgh
Ayr
NGR
NS 33497 21680
Coordinates
233497, 621680

Description

Circa 1803, with later additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay classical house (with later bays to outer left and Alloway Place). Painted render. Base course; cill course to ground floor windows; central dividing band course; eaves course; cornice; strip quoins. Painted margins to window openings.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: fluted Ionic columns to entrance porch in advanced, pedimented central bay; corniced doorpiece; timber door; cill course to flat-headed Venetian window at 1st floor (blind flanking windows); 'Berkeley House' to fascia; roundel to pediment; 3-light dormer at attic. Single windows to recessed flanking bays at ground and 1st floors; 2-light dormers at attic. Single windows (non-aligned) at ground and 1st floor to later bay to outer left; glazed timber door and shop window to re-entrant angle.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 11-bay, grouped 4-7. 4 single windows at ground and 1st floor to main house (blind windows to outer left at ground, penultimate bay to left and outer right at 1st floor). Recessed 2-leaf timber door with 3-light fanlight to right, in later single-storey 7-bay section; 2 single windows flanking; 2 single windows to outer left.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piend roof (platform roof to later addition to left); rooflights; pair of corniced ridge stacks; circular cans; single stack to later single storey 7-bay section.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS: painted coped wall to W; coped brick wall to E.

Statement of Special Interest

Nos 1-29 (Inclusive Nos, no No 13 and 30, 32 and 54 Fullarton Street) form B Group. 1 Barns Street occupies an important corner site close to Wellington Square (see separate listings) and was the forerunner of development in Barns Street. The N side of Barns Street formed Ayr's first regular terrace development (Dodd, p358). Converted to hotel in 1928.

References

Bibliography

John Wood's Plan of Ayr, 1818 (evident); feued 1803 (information courtesy of Robert Close); AYR ADVERTISER, 12.04.1928; William Dodd "Ayr: A Study of Urban Growth" in AYRSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS, Vol 10 (1972), pp338, 358, 359; Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p23; Dane Love PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AYR (1995), p10; NMRS Photographic Archive (B27214, AY/5021/14).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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