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Part One Ayr Central Conservation Area Character Appraisal Dansarena, Fort Street, 1807–10. Cathcart Street Relief Church, 1816. Doorpiece, 20 Cathcart Street. (1907), by local architect James A Morris, is a prominent contribution to the skyline when viewed from Newtonon-Ayr. Neighbour to the school is Dansarena (1807– 10), formerly the Cathcart Church and built when the congregation of Ayr Auld Kirk exceeded its capacity. The Art Nouveau arched gateway is an attractive addition to the street. The Victorian tenements are simply detailed and the domed corner of 26 Fort Street is a pleasing contribution to the streetscape. There are some B–listed examples of early 19th–century townhouses at 47–49 Fort Street (1824) and 52–54 Fort Street and Ayr Baptist Church (1817), formerly the Theatre Royal, at 51 Fort Street is a local landmark on the square where Fort Street and Sandgate meet. 10–22 Academy Street (1780) is a fine terrace of tenements with corniced doorpieces denoting it as a fashionable late 18th–century address. In a row of townhouses 5 Cathcart Street (early–19th century) is notable for a cavetto splayed doorpiece, a recurring and attractive motif of Georgian and early Victorian Ayr. Cathcart Street Relief Church (1816) has been converted into residential use and St Columba Church is of interest as a restrained piece of Art Deco with a geometric frieze over three long windows. The arched windows of the triple-bayed 6 Cathcart Street (1890) are unusual in the area, the building having been coachworks. South Harbour Street is predominantly composed of early 19th–century tenements facing the river with 1–5 being B–listed and notable for its pedimented doorpiece and tripartite windows. 9–13 South Harbour Street has a distinctive 1–storey section with bows separated by pilasters and is also B–listed. The single storey building that sits on the quay (The Waterside Bar, formerly the lifeboat station) offers a positive contribution to the street and the gable-hooded pulleys of 37–49 South Harbour Street are a good relic of warehousing from the street’s industrial past. The B–listed Miller’s Folly is a mid 19th–century bartizan added to the Citadel wall that terminates the street. Materials The Old Customs House, 2 Fort Street, c1810. Sandstone is the main material employed in the construction of the buildings on Sandgate, although much of it is ashlar hidden beneath a layer of off-white paint (e.g. 1–3 New Bridge Street). Window surrounds are commonly painted a darker colour. Those that remain unpainted are in pale sandstone, with the notable exceptions in red (27–29, 43 & 56–58 Sandgate; Bus Station; and 26–36 Fort Street). The surface treatments include rubble (41 Sandgate), coursed, squared (37 Sandgate), stugged (23 Sandgate), snecked, bull-faced 44
Ayr Central Conservation Area Character Appraisal Part One (no. 43 Sandgate), ashlar (Town Buildings; 13, 24 & 56 Sandgate) and polished ashlar (34 New Bridge Street; 27–29, 39, 67–71 & 58 Sandgate). A number are painted render or harl and only Lady Cathcart’s House is a lime wash render, the use of which possibly reflects a shift in conservation practice from that evidenced by the exposed rubble of Loudoun Hall. There is one building with brick upper storeys at 3 Academy Street and the sides and rear of most buildings are of rubble sandstone, occasionally harled apart from the red brick side elevation of 56–58 Sandgate. The majority of buildings have original timber sash and case windows in a variety of configurations crown, cylinder or plate glass. New Bridge Street retains a 6-over-6 pattern but Sandgate employs a greater variety with only the 20th century windows having horn details (e.g. 16–18 New Bridge Street; 13 and 54 Sandgate). Leaded and stained glass are to be found on the ecclesiastical buildings. The Bridges Bar retains patterned etched glass. The shopfronts predominantly have simple display windows with modern, plate glass in timber or aluminium frames. 33 Sandgate has particularly attractive traditional multi-paned upper sections. Most are beneath a continuous cornice and some New Bridge Street shopfronts are divided by fluted pilasters. 1–3 Sandgate has Ionic pilasters between the bays. Most finishes are ashlar, painted stone or timber. Traditional doors are 2–leaf to shops and panelled doors to tenement stair entrances with rectilinear fanlights over. The pitched roofs retain their grey Scottish slate with diminishing courses and lead ridge details; only no. 43 Sandgate has a terracotta ridge tile and Lady Cathcart’s House a stone ridge tile. 10–12 Sandgate is more unusual, being piended. The corner dome of 67–71 Sandgate is tiled in red. Dormers are predominantly canted and piended but with segmentalheaded (8–10 New Bridge Street; 21–25 Sandgate) and gable-headed (41 Sandgate) also making an appearance. Most buildings retain their cast-iron rainwater goods fed from either lead parapet guttering or half-round gutters. The chimney wallheads are either corniced or coped stacks with circular cans, apart from 7–9 Cathcart Street which has an attractive fluted can on the tympanum gable. The majority appear to be cement rendered, bar some that are brick rebuilds (e.g. 22 Academy Street) or that on 56–58 Sandgate. Few buildings have boundary walls or railings but Dansarena and Ayr Academy have square plan gatepiers, low coped stone walls with iron railings. 41 Sandgate has a low coped stone wall, with spearheaded iron railings and particularly notable lamp standards with barleysugar posts. 58 Sandgate has iron gate-piers and railings on a low coped stone wall. 20 Cathcart Street has low coped stone walls with spiked iron railings and 2 Fort Street has a low coped boundary wall. Walls to the rear of properties tend to be high with stone copes, as seen on St John Street. Fluted chimney cans, 7–9 Cathcart Street 45
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