Treesbanks House, Ayr Road, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Country house.

Treesbanks House, Ayr Road, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
forbidden-lime-ochre
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 July 1980
Type
Country house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Treesbanks House is a country house located on Ayr Road in Kilmarnock, designed by James K Hunter in 1926. This two-storey and attic building features an irregular U-plan layout and showcases English vernacular architectural details. The exterior is constructed of mannered random rubble with ashlar dressings and includes mullioned windows.

The principal elevation to the northeast has a flight of curved stairs leading to a single-storey entrance porch that projects flatly. The porch has a door on the left, flanked by buttresses with ball finials at the roofline. To the right of the door are a pair of slit windows, with another slit window on the left return. The main house is situated behind the porch, featuring a central stepped gable that conceals the ground floor. Above the porch, there is a four-light window on the first floor and a cartouche panel at the gablehead. To the left of the gable, there are bipartite windows on the ground floor, with a single four-light window above in the outer bay. To the right of the central gable, there is a five-light window and another bipartite window on the first floor. The house has irregularly sized dormer windows on either side of the central gable and a further projecting gable to the right with irregular fenestration on each floor. To the left of the main house, there is a recessed gable with a five-light window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The southeast elevation features a blind wall with a stepped chimney flue projecting from it. The southwest garden elevation has a recessed doorway off-centre to the left, with a tripartite window above it. There is a window on both storeys to the right, along with a buttress and a single-storey addition with a window at the centre in the re-entrant angle with the right gable. To the right, there is a projecting wing with a two-storey polygonal bay that has deep eaves and a semi-conical roof. A projecting gable is located at the far left, with regular fenestration on each floor and a slightly projecting ground floor to the right return.

The northwest elevation was not seen in 2001. The house features casement windows that vary from one to five panes, with mullions and some transoms. It has a piended roof with stone ridging and zinc gulleys, as well as catslide dormers with slated cheeks. The cast-iron rainwater goods include stepped stacks to the major gable with a band course and plain cans, along with a rectangular plain ashlar stack on the roof that has neck copes and a plain can. The interior was not seen in 2001.

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