10 Wellington Square Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
10 Wellington Square has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 394625 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 47247
- Canmore ID
- 206342
- Category
- B
- Name
- 10 Wellington Square Including Railings and Gate
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233391
- Northing
- 621808
- Date Listed
- 5 February 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Earlier 19th century. 2-storey with basement and attic, 3-bay classical house forming part of terrace. Painted ashlar. Banded rustication at basement; ground floor band course; eaves course; cornice; blocking course. Architraved windows; square brackets to lower cill corners at ground floor; cornices to ground floor windows. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central stepped platt oversailing basement; timber door; segmental umbrella fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor; glazed timber door aligned below at basement. Flanking single windows at basement, ground and 1st floors. Single dormers to outer right and left at attic. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; coped stacks; circular cans. INTERIOR: not seen 1998. RAILINGS AND GATE: ashlar copes surmounted by spear-headed iron railings (urn finials delineate sections); gate to outer right; boot-scrapers remain.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
B Group with Nos 1-12 (Inclusive), 16-27 (Inclusive), Sheriff Court (No 14), County Buildings, Monuments to James George Smith Neill, Earl of Eglinton and Wintoun, Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, War Memorial, and Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls. The palace-fronted square as proposed by John Robertson in 1799 was not pursued, instead individual feuars were allowed to develop the square. Mutual eaves course, cornice and blocking course with remainder of terrace (No 1 slightly higher).
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
John Robertson's proposed plans for Wellington Square, 1799 (SRO RHP 2555); John Wood's Plan of Ayr 1818, Nos 5-9, 12-13, 16-25, 26 and 27 (evident), Ayr and Suburbs Parliamentary Boundary Map circa 1832, Nos 1-27 (evident); feued 1821 (information courtesy of Robert Close); F H Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1 (1882), pp96-7; William Dodd "Ayr: A Study of Urban Growth" in AYRSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS, Vol 10 (1972), pp338, 364; John Strawhorn and Ken Andrew DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE (1988), p104; Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), pp21-2; Dane Love PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AYR (1995), pp10, 47; NMRS Photographic Archive (AY 5013).
