Hotel De Croft, 26 Courthill Street, Dalry

The Hotel De Croft, at 26 Courthill Street, Dalry, is a gabled villa built in 1912 in a manorial/late Arts and Crafts style. It is a single-storey building with an attic. The exterior is finished with white-painted harl, with very deep blue-grey slate pitched roofs that are swept at the eaves. Tall, asymmetrically placed harled stacks with coping are present; the windows are sash and case with 8 panes to each sash, mostly, and are single, bipartite (two-part), or tripartite (three-part). The north and west elevations have been altered by the addition of flat-roofed extensions that are not in keeping with the original design.

The south (entrance) elevation is near-symmetrical, with the roof swept low over the recessed central entrance bay. Projecting single-storey and attic gabled bays flank this central bay giving a symmetrical appearance, though with different detailing. The left-hand gable, partially absorbed into a later addition, has a chimney breast that rises through the centre as a tall apex stack, with bipartite windows flanking it to provide light to an entrance hall ingleneuk at ground floor level. The right-hand gabled bay features a pair of bipartite windows at ground level and a tripartite window at attic level. A swept main roof covers the recessed central entrance bay, forming a porch canopy supported by timber brackets. A segmental-arched entrance is on the right, and a tripartite window is to the left. Original cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative raised linking detail have been retained, flanking the entrance on the projecting gables and covering the roof of the entrance canopy.

The east elevation shows an asymmetrical arrangement of gables, with the main body of the house recessed to the left behind a projecting single-storey gabled service block. This service block has a small bipartite window to the left on the south elevation and a louvred slit vent in its apex. A flat-roofed addition is present at ground level. A full-height gabled bay projects, reaching the same height as the single-storey block to the right, with a stack in the centre of the ridge and narrow windows in the attic, a single window to the left and a bipartite window to the right.

The interior has been substantially altered, but details of the original entrance hall remain, including decorative panelling and a segmentally-arched brick ingleneuk fireplace.

The building is listed at category C due to the presence of unsympathetic additions and interior alterations. It is documented in "The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire" by Michael C Davis (1991, pp110, 111, and 221).