2 Doonholm Road Ayr, Scotland
Listed Building Data
2 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 356916 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 21570
- Canmore ID
- 201884
- Category
- B
- Name
- 2 Doonholm Road Including Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Wall
- Parish
- Ayr
- County
- South Ayrshire
- Easting
- 233435
- Northing
- 618520
- Date Listed
- 10 January 1980
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay (main house, with 2-bay single storey wing), rectangular-plan classical detached house. Render; painted margins and quoins. Base course; 1st floor cill course; eaves course. NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance; pedimented, fluted Doric columned doorpiece; finely detailed triglyph and metope entablature; mutule detailing to pediment; timber door; narrow letterbox fanlight; single window aligned above at 1st floor; single windows flanking at ground and 1st floor. 2 single windows to wing to right. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: central glazed timber door and sidelight to right; single window aligned above at 1st floor; flanking tripartite windows at ground floor; single windows at 1st floor; 2 single windows to wing to left. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: steps to glazed timber door; 2 square windows above; single window to left. Predominantly plate glass, 4- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; stone skews; rooflights; corniced gablehead stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 1999. GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan stone gatepiers to central pedestrian entrance and vehicular entrance to left; single iron gate to pedestrian entrance, 2-leaf iron gate to vehicular entrance; high coped rubble boundary wall enclosing site.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Good example of early 19th century classical building in the predominantly later 19th century/20th century architecture in Alloway village. Of particular note is the finely detailed doorpiece with its triglyph and metope entablature.
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), p185; NMRS Photographic Archive (A5385).
