1 Doonholm Road Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
1 Doonholm Road 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 356762 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 21481
- Canmore ID
- 244326
- Category
- C
- Name
- 1 Doonholm Road Including Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Wall
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233470
- Northing
- 618537
- Date Listed
- 10 January 1980
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Clarke & Bell, 1849. 2-storey, 3-bay (main house) with single storey wing. Stugged rubble. Central moulded string course. Square-headed, chamfered window openings. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: columned entrance porch to central gabled bay; modillion cornice; glazed timber door; single window aligned above at 1st floor. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to advanced gable to outer left. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to bay to right (1st floor window breaks eaves to form gablet; single window to re-entrant angle to left. 2 single windows and glazed timber door with letterbox fanlight to single storey section to right; further 8-bay single storey garage section to outer right adjoining. NW (ALLOWAY) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to gabled bay to left; bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor to bay to right (1st floor window breaks eaves to form gablet; finial to gable apex). SE AND NE ELEVATIONS: not seen 1999. Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; overlapping slab stone skews; skewputts; corniced gablehead and pitch stacks; circular and polygonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALL: stone gatepiers to pedestrian and vehicular entrances; iron gate to pedestrian entrance; timber gate to vehicular entrance; coped boundary wall enclosing site. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Good example of mid 19th century architecture, important for its earlier use as a schoolhouse to the adjoining Alloway Public Halls (see separate list description). Notable architectural detailing includes the columned entrance porch and the moulded skewputts.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (evident); Rob Close AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p155; NMRS Photographic Archive (A1512).
