Deanhill, Turner Place, Kilmarnock

Deanhill, Turner Place, Kilmarnock

A Gothic villa built around 1870, this is a two-storey, three-bay house on a double pile rectangular plan. The building is constructed in coursed snecked ashlar with polished dressings and an offset base course. Windows feature chamfered heads and sloped cills throughout.

The principal south elevation is dominated by a slightly advanced central gabled bay containing a projecting cast-iron porch. The porch has paired columns with stained glass infill and a rosette header supporting solid curved brackets that carry an ornate piended semi-glazed porch roof. Three painted stone steps lead to a stop-chamfered door surround with a wrought-iron bell push on the right. The two-leaf timber door is surmounted by a rectangular fanlight inscribed with "Deanhill" and leads to an inner door. Above the door is a carved stone panel with thistle relief contained within a hoodmould shaped to follow the form of the porch, with a later lion's head mask to the right and a lion's head planter to the left. The first-floor window above the porch has a gun loop detail within an arched hoodmould and is surmounted by a pointed stone finial. A stone lion's head waterspout sits to the right. To the left is a regularly placed bay with a carved semi-circular plaque above and an arched hoodmould joining the band course. The first-floor window sits above. To the right is a two-storey, three-light canted bay with battlemented top and crossed gun loop detail to the gablehead of the main building, surmounted by a pointed stone finial.

The east elevation has an M-gabled profile with a single-storey, battlemented and crowstepped outbuilding abutting the ground floor. A single window sits to the left of the left gable on the first floor, with a pair of windows to the right gable. An adjoining outbuilding occupies the ground floor of the right return, with a central window and a further pair of single-storey gable-ended outbuildings to the right. The centre features a pair of sliding timber doors with an ornamental lion's head mask to the gablehead; a later lean-to glass house with a central door to the right gable and an arched window to the gablehead with stack adjoins.

The north (rear) elevation has a central modern entrance porch with door and glazed window in the right return, with a blind wall to the right on the main building. Three regularly placed windows sit on the first floor: a central elongated window serving the staircase and a right-hand window in the gable end with a blind gable head above.

The west elevation is two-storey and three-bay, with the right-hand bays in the gable end. Paired windows occupy both storeys on the left. To the right, the ground floor has a window with a blind plaque above and ornate hoodmoulding forming the first-floor cill set-off. The first-floor window is rectangular with a triangular inset pediment, label-stopped hoodmould, and a curved finial surmounted by a star. A further ornate pointed finial rises to the gablehead.

The roof is piended grey slate with crested black and red ridge tiles. Rainwater goods consist of concealed gutters with a stone lion's head waterspout to the principal south elevation and a waterspout putt to the southeast angle of the main gable; replacement plastic rainwater goods serve the rear, and painted cast-iron rainwater goods line the east elevation. Gablehead stacks to the east elevation have projecting neck copes and triple octagonal cans.

Principal windows retain replacement four-pane timber sash and case units. Narrow two-pane windows and a multi-paned window with fanned panes above serve the elongated staircase window.

The crowstepped end gables feature kneelers or waterspouts.

The interior retains period features including wood panelling and a semi-glazed door to the entrance hall, cornices, picture rails, and an original timber staircase.