12 Wellington Square Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
12 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 394627 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 47249
- Canmore ID
- 206311
- Category
- B
- Name
- 12 Wellington Square Including Railings and Gates
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233374
- Northing
- 621810
- Date Listed
- 5 February 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Early and earlier 19th century. Two-storey with attic and basement, eight-bay mirrored pair of classical houses (excluding attic) 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 windows; cornices to ground floor openings. South (entrance) elevation: central stepped platts oversailing basements to double entrances; timber and glazed timber doors at centre to each pair (penultimate bay to left forms window); decorative looped work above; flanking single windows; regular fenestration at first floor; two canted dormers at centre, single dormer to outer right at attic. Four single windows to centre at basement; two single windows to outer bays; glazed timber doors to re-entrant angles (boarded timber to bay to outer left). Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows (four-pane to attic dormers to outer left and right, twelve-pane to basement to outer left); rooflights. Grey slate roof; coped stacks; circular cans. Interior: not seen 1998. Railings and Gates: ashlar copes surmounted by spear-headed iron railings (urn finials delineate sections); two gates to central bays; single gates to outer left and right.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
B Group comprising 1 Wellington Square (see LB21815), 2 and 3 Wellington Square (see LB47242), 4 Wellington Square (see LB47243), 5 and 6 Wellington Square (see LB47244), 7 and 8 Wellington Square (see LB47245), 9 Wellington Square (see LB47246), 10 Wellington Square (see LB47247), 11 Wellington Square (see LB47248), 12, 14 and 15 Wellington Square (see LB47249) , 16 Wellington Square (see LB21816), 17 Wellington Square (see LB47251), 18 Wellington Square (see LB47252), 19 Wellington Square (see LB47253), 20 Wellington Square (see LB47254), 21 Wellington Square (see LB47255), 22 Wellington Square (see LB47256), 23 Wellington Square (see LB47257), 24 Wellington Square (see LB47258), 25 Wellington Square (see LB21817), 26 Wellington Square (see LB21818), 27 Wellington Square (see LB21819) , Ayr Sheriff Court (see LB21820), County Buildings (see LB47250), Monuments to Archibald William, Earl of Eglinton and Wintoun (see LB21822), Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran (see LB21823), War Memorial (see LB47259). The palace-fronted square as proposed by John Robertson in 1799 was not pursued, instead individual feuars were allowed to develop the square. The property has been subdivided and there may be other addresses associated with this listing. Statutory address revised in 2021.Previously listed as '12 Wellington Square including railings and gates, Ayr'.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Bibliography 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 1818 (information courtesy of Robert Close); F H Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1 (1882), pp97-98; 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).
