Barrington House, 65 Wilson Street, Beith

The Coach House at Barrington House, located at 65 Wilson Street in Beith, dates from around 1860. This large, two-storey, three-bay Italianate villa was converted into a residential care home in 1999. It features a central portico supported by Corinthian columns, with a timber panelled outer door set within a pilastered surround and a round-arched fanlight above. The façade includes flanking canted bay windows. On the first floor, there is a central bipartite window and flanking tripartite windows, all with moulded square-headed architraves. The windows have round-arched and segmental heads, and the building is constructed of polished buff ashlar with raised quoins and a bracketed eaves cornice.

On the west (rear) elevation, there are four bays, including a canted bay on the outer left at both the ground and first floors, and a single-storey entrance block to the centre left with a bipartite stair window above. To the right, there are two bays with a late 20th-century conservatory, and all windows feature round-arched heads. The south elevation has a service door in the re-entrant angle, while the north elevation has a projecting bay on the ground right with a bipartite window and another window on the first floor. Throughout the building, there are timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and features some straight stone skews on the gabled blocks at the rear, along with corniced ashlar stacks with moulded clay cans.

The interior was altered in 1999 and includes a decorative cast-iron balustrade with a mahogany handrail on the staircase. There are timber panelled doors with roll-moulded architraves and some original decorative cornicing.

The coach house itself has three bays and features an off-centre gabled bay with a depressed arch and a keyblock dated 1860, along with oculi above and a pyramidal finial at the apex. There is a timber boarded door to the left and another door to the right with small windows on both the ground and first floors. A round-arched bipartite window is located on the west gable. The structure is made of coursed, stugged sandstone and has timber sash and case lying-pane windows as well as small-pane windows. The roof is also covered with grey slates, featuring sawtooth skews, a stone ridge, and wallhead stacks at the rear. The coach house is currently in poor condition.

Surrounding the property are boundary walls, gatepiers, and gates. There is a random rubble coped wall that bounds the garden to the east and north at the rear and sides, along with a cast-iron gate to the rear. A painted, coped low ashlar wall runs along Wilson Street, featuring four Gothic octagonal gatepiers with bracketed, scalloped caps, two small cast-iron gates, and a central two-leaf cast-iron gate, both designed in a fleur de lis pattern.