Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

2, 4 CHARLOTTE STREET AND 43 FORT STREETLB21545

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
10/01/1980
Local Authority
South Ayrshire
Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Burgh
Ayr
NGR
NS 33456 21923
Coordinates
233456, 621923

Description

John Murdoch later 19th century. 2-storey, 6-bay L-plan tenement on corner site. Coursed, squared sandstone. Base course; eaves course; cornice; part-chamfered corner to S and E elevation. Architraves to S elevation window openings; bracketed cills to E elevation window openings.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to architraved and corniced doorpieces to 3rd and 5th bays; timber doors; letterbox fanlights to both; single window aligned above at 1st floor to 5th bay only. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor to outer and central bays (smaller window opening at 1st floor to right of central bay); additional bay of single windows to penultimate bay to left.

E (FORT STREET) ELEVATION: 6-bay. Arched, consoled cavetto-splayed doorpiece to 4th bay rising to gabled wallhead chimney; timber door; fanlight; single windows flanking at ground and 1st floor; bipartite windows flanking to 2nd and 6th bays; single windows at ground and 1st floor to left; gabled wallhead chimney to outer left.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof (piended to corner); stone skews; coped ridge and wallhead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.

Statement of Special Interest

A prominent corner-site block on the Fort Street and Charlotte Street junction, providing an interesting example of developing 19th century urban architecture in distinction to the earlier 19th century houses opposite in Charlotte Street. Of particular interest are the differing window and doorpiece treatments to the Fort and Charlotte Street elevations.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (earlier structure evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1896 (evident); AYR ADVERTISER, 06.06.1878 (information courtesy of Robert Close); NMRS Photographic Archive (A5289).

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)

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