21-31 (Odd) Alloway Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
21-31 (Odd) Alloway 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 394517 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 47132
- Canmore ID
- 201796
- Category
- C
- Name
- 21 31 (odd Nos) Alloway Including Railings and Boundary Wall
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233519
- Northing
- 618616
- Date Listed
- 29 March 2000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
James K Hunter, 1903. 2-storey, 2-bay, terrace of gabled cottages. Painted harl. Advanced cat-slide roofed, paired entrance porches; low boundary walls; supporting columns; timber eaves; decorative rainwater openings linking gables at eaves. NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: glazed timber door to entrance porch of No 21; altered bay to left, forms glazed timber door shop entrance; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor. Glazed timber door and tripartite window at ground to No 23; bipartite window at 1st floor. Altered ground floor to No 25 comprises infilled entrance porch of timber door, split letterbox fanlight and single window to left; bipartite and single window to left advanced, canted return; bipartite window at 1st floor. Timber glazed door to No 27 to left; tripartite window at ground floor to right; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor. Altered shopfront to No 29 comprises glazed timber door to right; shop windows to left; bipartite window at 1st floor. Altered ground floor bay to No 31 comprises timber door to left and single window, tripartite window to right; bipartite window aligned above at 1st floor. SW AND NE ELEVATIONS: gabled; blank. SE ELEVATION: not seen 1999. Predominantly 8-pane timber sash and case windows; some modern glazing. Rosemary tiled roof; stone skews rooflights; coped ridge and gablehead stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIORS: not seen 1999. RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALL: predominantly iron railings atop low coped boundary wall enclosing entrance elevation.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Important for group value and siting opposite Burns Cottage and Museum (see separate list descriptions). Of particular interest are the columned doorpiece detailings and shaped rainwater openings, linking gables.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ordnance Survey map, 1896 (partly evident), Ordnance Survey map, 1909 (evident); Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p155.
