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Latitude: 55.4624 / 55°27'44"N
Longitude: -4.6378 / 4°38'16"W
OS Eastings: 233324
OS Northings: 621897
OS Grid: NS333218
Mapcode National: GBR 39.XW79
Mapcode Global: WH2PP.QYQS
Plus Code: 9C7QF966+XV
Entry Name: 6 Cassillis Street, Ayr
Listing Name: 6 and 6A Cassilis Street Including Railings and Gate
Listing Date: 10 January 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 356851
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21525
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, 6 Cassillis Street
ID on this website: 200356851
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 19th century. 2-storey and basement, 2-bay rectangular-plan house on corner site. Coursed, squared sandstone. Eaves course; cornice; blocking course; strip quoin to right. Architraved windows; cornice to ground floor E elevation window.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stepped platt oversailing basement to right; double pilastered, corniced and block-pedimented doorpiece; glazed timber door; letterbox fanlight; sidelight to right; single window aligned above at 1st floor; glazed timber door aligned below at basement. Regular fenestration to bay to left at basement, ground and 1st floor.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Windows to centre and left at basement; regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors (windows to centre and right at ground floor and flanking central window at 1st floor, infilled). Small modern extension to outer right.
4-pane lying pane glazing to upper sashes to E elevation (plate glass at basement); 6- and 10-pane lying pane glazing to N elevation. Grey slate roof; rooflights; stone skews; corniced gablehead stacks; circular and polygonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
RAILINGS AND GATE: iron railings to stepped platt and basement to E elevation; iron gate to left.
The later 19th century Eglinton Terrace (see separate list description) was developed by following the line of buildings in Cassilis Street to the centre of the Citadel enclosure (Dodd, pp348, 359). In the short terrace of Nos 6-14 (Even Nos), Nos 6 and 6A, along with Nos 8 and 10, followed the earlier building pattern of Nos 12 and 14, the only two houses present on the Ordnance Survey map, 1858.
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