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

1-27 (INCLUSIVE NOS) EGLINTON TERRACE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND GATESLB21573

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/02/1971
Local Authority
South Ayrshire
Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Burgh
Ayr
NGR
NS 33338 22096
Coordinates
233338, 622096

Description

Later 19th century, with later additions. 2-storey terrace of mirrored pairs of 3-bay houses. Polished ashlar. Base course; central band course; 1st floor cill course; mutuled cornice. Architraves to window surrounds; cornices at 1st floor windows.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: regular sequence of square-headed architraved entrances at ground to left or right; timber doors; letterbox fanlights; single windows aligned above at 1st floor; regular fenestration to 2 outer bays. Nos 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, 27 advanced (raised in height by frieze cornice depth); wrought-iron 1st floor balconies (excepting No 27). Tripartite dormer to No 7, bipartite dormer to No 13, tripartite dormer to No 14, single dormer to No 15, 2 swept dormers to No 17 (bipartite to right), double dormer to No 23, single round-arched dormers to Nos 24 and 25.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof (piend roofs to Nos 1 and 2, 13-15); dormers to Nos 1 (side and rear only), 2 (rear only), 7, 12 (rear only), 13 (entrance elevation only), 14 (entrance elevation only), 15 (entrance elevation only), 17, 23, 24 and 25; rooflights; mutuled cornice to ridge stacks; polygonal and circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND GATES: low coped boundary walls divide houses and enclose site to E elevation (some with railings surmounting; short balustrades to entrance with square-plan piers and ball-finials (predominantly remaining); iron gatepiers and gates to pedestrian entrances (predominantly remaining).

Statement of Special Interest

Part of John Miller's feuing plan (who acquired the site in 1853) for the Citadel area, extending the line of Cassilis Street to the centre of Citadel enclosure. This long terraced row is a good example of later 19th century neo-classical architecture overlooking St John the Baptist's Tower (see separate list description). Pattern suggests a palace block scheme, incomplete to the N.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (not evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1896 (1-25 evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1909 (all evident); William Dodd "Ayr: A Study of Urban Growth" in AYRSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS, Vol 10 (1972), pp348, 359; Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p20; R and J Kennedy OLD AYR (1992), p54; NMRS Photographic Archive (A6081).

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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