Highfield House, Turner Place, Kilmarnock

Highfield House, located on Turner Place in Kilmarnock, is a Gothic villa built around 1880. This two-storey, three-bay building is constructed of coursed ashlar stone, featuring polished ashlar dressings. It has a rusticated base course, a cill course on the first floor, a corbelled eaves course, and hoodmoulded windows on the west elevation. The gable ends are crowstepped and adorned with ornate kneelers and finials.

The principal elevation faces west and includes a central door set within a projecting crowstepped gabled porch that has a haunched entrance arch and a decorative panel in the gablehead. There are single light windows on the left and right returns, both with hoodmoulds. To the left, an advanced gable features a two-storey, three-light canted bay with battlemented detail, an arched centre, and a pointed light with a hoodmould in the crowstepped gablehead, topped with a stone thistle finial. To the right, there is a shallow, square projecting bay with stone mullioned tripartite windows, a stepped hoodmould above the first-floor tripartite, and a narrow pointed hoodmoulded light in the crowstepped wallhead gable, which has a ball finial on top. The eaves are concealed by a bracketed cornice. A gabled glasshouse with a lean-to extension is attached to the ground floor on the right return, along with a later single-storey ashlar and glass structure that was formerly a garage but now serves as an entrance, and a single-storey range extending to the rear.

The northeast elevation has its gables partially hidden by nearby buildings. The rear elevation is two-storey with regular fenestration on the right and an altered single-storey range on the left. The south elevation features an M-gable adjoining a timber and glazing 19th-century glasshouse on the ground floor to the left, and a single-storey range on the right. There is a window on the first floor of the left gable and an irregular pair of windows on the right gable, with central arrowslit windows in both gableheads.

The villa mostly has two-pane timber sash and case windows with horns and brass window furniture. The pitched grey slate roof is finished with crested black and red ridge tiles, zinc gulleys, and flashing. The stone stacks have projecting moulded neck copes and small plain cans.

Inside, there are some original features such as cornicing, along with a timber glasshouse and a modern extension to the rear and side.