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2 Queen's Terrace, Ayr

A Category B Listed Building in Ayr, South Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4618 / 55°27'42"N

Longitude: -4.64 / 4°38'23"W

OS Eastings: 233184

OS Northings: 621831

OS Grid: NS331218

Mapcode National: GBR 39.XVNF

Mapcode Global: WH2PP.PZP9

Plus Code: 9C7QF966+P2

Entry Name: 2 Queen's Terrace, Ayr

Listing Name: 2 Queen's Terrace and 18 Bath Place Including Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 5 February 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 357153

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21726

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Ayr, 2 Queen's Terrace

ID on this website: 200357153

Location: Ayr

County: South Ayrshire

Town: Ayr

Electoral Ward: Ayr West

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, near rectangular-plan house on corner site. Coursed sandstone. Base course; 1st floor cill course; eaves course; cornice; blocking course; strip margins. Architraved margins to window openings; cill blocks and painted surrounds to ground floor (W elevation) openings.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central pilastered, corniced, block-pedimented doorpiece; timber door; letterbox fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor; regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors to flanking bays.

S (BATH PLACE) ELEVATION: square-headed entrance to outer right; timber door; letterbox fanlight. 2 single windows to left at ground and 1st floors.

12-pane timber sash and case windows at ground floor; 6-pane to upper sashes at 1st floor. Grey slate roof; stone skews; coped stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped boundary wall to outer right of Bath Place elevation.

Statement of Interest

Used as an architectural precedent to the later adjacent Nos 4 and 6 Queen's Terrace, which shares mutual base, eaves, cornice and blocking courses, but has bipartite windows and an exterior stair to outer left (see separate list description).

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