Kidsneuk Cottage, 6 And 7 Kidsneuk Gardens, Irvine

Kidsneuk Cottage is an early 19th-century building, possibly incorporating a 17th-century core. It was reroofed and partly re-fronted in the later 1920s. The cottage is a single storey with an attic, built of whinstone rubble with ashlar dressings and droved quoins, which were once polished but are now weathered.

The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central four-column porch, the doorway of which has been converted into a window, and a built-out, rendered and half-timbered attic. Flanking windows have attic lights above rectangular hood-moulds to the ground floor. A two-column and two-pilaster canted bay is on the west elevation’s left side, with a central French window and a faceted roof. A plain window is to the right.

The rear has three gables. A central, most advanced rendered addition is on the left, and a lower wing is on the right, constructed of whinstone, with a small gothic pointed light with intersecting tracery, and a door to the side. A jerkin-headed gable and outshots are to the east. The roof is of red tiles, projecting on plain eaves with plain boarding. There are two tall chimneys, each with three octagonal, corniced stacks, alongside later rendered stacks, and a small, scalloped, tiled octagonal lantern in the centre.

The interior glazing of the north elevation and south end of the west elevation have been altered. A sundial is in the garden to the east, set on a baluster base. At the entrance are two 18th-century squared, channelled ashlar gatepiers, missing their caps.

The building is reputedly the Elginton family's dower house, once occupied by Lady Susannah (born a Kennedy of Culzean in 1689), who died in 1780. It is said she built a farm on the site of the present club house, modelled on Marie Antoinette's ‘Hameau’ at Versailles. Kidsneuk Cottage was thatched until around 1925. The statutory address is KIDSNEUK COTTAGE, 6, 7 RAVENSPARK GOLF COURSE.