Annanhill, Irvine Road, Kilmarnock

Annanhill is a country house dating from 1796, with subsequent alterations and subdivision in 1990 by Nicholas Grove-Raines & Partners. It is a two-storey and attic building of a square plan, constructed in a Palladian style, and raised on a basement. The exterior is rendered and painted ashlar with painted ashlar margins, and features a projecting base, lintel, eaves, and angle courses. A projecting moulded cornice with a parapet inset with raised panels runs around the building.

The principal, or north-east, elevation presents three bays with a shallow, central, pedimented bay. Five splayed stone steps lead to a projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico supported to the rear by two Ionic pilasters, an entablature, and a balustrade. An architraved door surround with a bracketed cornice is flanked by a single window. Paired windows are located in the central basement bay, with larger single windows in the outer bays. The first floor features the central bay containing a window with lugged architraves, topped by a closed triangular pediment; flanked by windows with architraves. A central domical roof is topped with a window, with attic dormers to the flanks. Wings extend to the left and right of the main house. The left wing contains a basement window and a door, with a window on the ground floor flanked by Ionic pilasters supporting a triangular pediment that breaks the parapet. The right wing is similar, with a basement door on the left.

The south-east elevation is a two-storey, three-bay wing, where the upper right window is now blind, with paired windows to the upper storey.

The south-west, or rear, elevation has a slightly projecting central bay with a door to the basement and a single window to each of the two storeys above, culminating in an arched attic window rising into a broken-base triangular pediment. Flanking the central bay are single bays across all storeys, with a set-back attic dormer above. A recessed wing is located to the left of the main building. The right wing continues the line of the main house with two basement windows and a tripartite window to the ground floor.

The north-west elevation has a projecting two-storey, two-bay wing adjoining the left and centre of a three-storey, three-bay main house. The main house has a single window on the basement and ground floor, and three regularly spaced bays to the first floor.

Replacement eight- and ten-pane timber sash and case windows are present in most openings, with an arched window in the top central bay of the rear elevation. Piended attic dormers feature canted timber sash and case bays and slated cheeks. The roof is a piended and platformed grey slate, with lead ridges and flashings, a platformed domical roof covered in lead at the centre, and a miniature version on the wings. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are in place. There are a pair of harled and painted stacks with eight-shaped cans on the roof of the main house, and painted panelled stacks with projecting neck copes and one or two tall plain cans on the wings.

The interior has been subdivided into six flats. However, it retains features such as Corinthian columns supporting ornate plasterwork and cornicing in the entrance hall, some original timber panelled doors with timber architraved surrounds, original cast-iron and timber fire surrounds, plaster ceiling roses, and timber picture rails.