County Buildings, Ayr

County Buildings is a municipal complex in Wellington Square, Ayr, Scotland which serves as the headquarters and main meeting place of South Ayrshire Council.

[2] The earliest part of the complex is the sheriff court: it was designed by Robert Wallace in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £30,000 and was completed in 1818.

[2] A memorial designed by Pilkington Jackson, commemorating the lives of soldiers of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who had died in the Second World War, was unveiled in the garden of the County Buildings in 1960.

Shaw line the north staircase and the south features portraits of Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet and Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton.

[9] The fumed oak finished council chamber, committee rooms and members corridor are housed on the first floor of the building.

Hamilton-Campbell of Netherplace, John Claude Hamilton, Colonel Wallace of Busbie and Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet are amongst some of the portraits displayed on the first floor of the building.

Front and side facade of County Buildings
The sheriff court in Wellington Square (at the eastern end of the complex)