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Ayr, 230 High Street, Tam O'shanter Inn
Inn (19th Century)
Site Name Ayr, 230 High Street, Tam O'shanter Inn
Classification Inn (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Tam O'shanter Museum
Canmore ID 201664
Site Number NS32SW 306
NGR NS 33897 21702
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/201664
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Ayr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS32SW 306
The Tam O'Shanter Museum was formerly the Tam o'Shanter Inn
Field Visit (21 May 2014)
NS 33894 21699 Two-storey inn rebuilt in 1808. Decorative, sculpted scobed ridge with hazel spars and horizontal metal wires/rods held in place by metal pegs. Listed as having a ‘reed roof’ and ‘turf ridge’, however, both the roof and ridge are now thatched in reed. Only the ridge is netted, the rest of the thatch is uncovered. There is a fair amount of mossy vegetation growth throughout the thatch and some compaction/decay in places, most evident at the abutment to the later adjacent buildings.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 21 May 2014, survey no.205
