Etruria, 41 Portland Road, Kilmarnock

Circa 1870. Single storey, 3-bay symmetrical villa with lower flanking single bay wings. Painted ashlar sandstone. Angle pilasters, cornice and parapet.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pair of square panelled piers with flat square caps leading to short flight of steps whose balustrade returns across front to meet canted bays; central recessed entrance door, arched fanlight, pilastered architraved surround with advanced keystone, flanking pilasters support bracketed cornice. Canted bays to 1st and 3rd bays with chamfered reveals, pierced balustrade above linking to parapet with decorative crest in raised central panel. Wings in shallow recesses with bipartite window to each, cornice and blocking course with raised central panel.

E ELEVATION: single storey end of side wing with two regularly placed bays.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

W ELEVATION: single storey end of side wing with two regularly placed bays, entrance door to rear.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Semi-circular fixed single pane fanlight above entrance door. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridging and flashings to main building and wings. Tall brick stacks with projecting stone neck copes and paired cans; pair of stacks to E of house now painted to match house.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2001.