15 Crosbie Road, Troon

Early 20th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 4-bay Free Style gabled house grouped 1-2-1 with 2-storey, gabled bay recessed to left; engaged polygonal porch in re-entrant angle; screen wall linking single storey rectangular-plan garage block to outer left. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone at ground; polished sandstone dressings; whitewashed harl at 1st floor. Slightly oversailing 1st floor; overhanging timber bracketed eaves; sandstone skews. Rake jointed quoins at ground; rake-jointed long and short surrounds to openings at both floors. Sandstone mullions; sandstone transoms at ground; chamfered cills at ground; projecting cills at 1st floor. Whitewashed harl to garage block.

SW (CROSBIE ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-light windows at both floors beneath skewed gable off-set to left of centre; 5-light canted windows at both floors beneath skewed gable off-set to right (ball shaped finials surmounting scalloped parapet). Single storey projection recessed to outer right; small single window recessed at 1st floor. Small, bipartite window at ground in bay recessed to outer left; blind at 1st floor. Polygonal porch in re-entrant angle to left with steps to boarded timber door in architraved, flattened Tudor-arch facing W; roll-moulded surround enclosing rectangular panel to right (elaborate carving with foliate, scrolled and animal detailing to outer edges); regularly spaced carved animals forming decorative frieze above; small single window in bay to right. Garage door at ground in gabled wing set behind; bipartite and single windows at 1st floor. Keystoned, round-arched opening set in screen wall to left; garage door centred in skewed gabled wing to outer left.

Predominantly 9-pane upper, plate glass lower timber sash and case glazing; leaded bipartite window to porch at rear. Red tile roofs; architraved skews; corniced skewputts; original rainwater goods. Sandstone cornices to harled wallhead stacks; terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

SUNKEN GARDEN WALLS: rubble sandstone walls enclosing rectangular-plan sunken garden to front; sandstone steps from upper level.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS: polished coping to stepped, tooled rubble sandstone wall enclosing site to front; timber railings set between. Whitewashed harl, circular-plan piers flanking entrance; red sandstone conical caps; cast-iron gates.