12 St Meddans Street, Troon

Circa 1900. Asymmetrical pair of 2-storey, semi-detached Free Style houses on corner site; 2-bay to Bentinck Drive; 4-bay to St Meddans Street; 3-stage engaged octagonal tower to N corner. Coursed red sandstone; squared and snecked bull-faced rubble plinth; polished sandstone dressings. Raised plinth; architraved string course; architraved cill course at 1st floor; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Segmental-arched recesses to ground floor openings; basket arched recesses and square-headed openings at 1st floor; sandstone mullions and transoms; chamfered cills at ground. Carved sandstone decoration; boarded timber swept gableheads. Single storey addition at rear.

NE (BENTINCK DRIVE) ELEVATION: full-height, projecting gabled bay to outer left comprising tripartite windows at both floors; stylised foliate frieze above eaves beneath swept gablehead. Single windows at both floors in central bay; round-arched, hoodmoulded entrance (No 2) in re-entrant angle to right; 2-leaf boarded timber door. 3-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in engaged tower to outer right; blind openings at upper stage with carved detail set between architraved panels.

NW (ST MEDDANS STREET) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded timber door set in round-arched, hoodmoulded surround at ground off-set to right of centre; narrow side-light to left; single window at 1st floor. 5-light canted windows at both floors in projecting bay to outer right; stylised foliate frieze beneath swept gablehead above. Bipartite windows at both floors off-set to left of centre; ball-finialed gablehead breaking eaves above. Single windows at both floors in bay to left; engaged tower in bay to outer left.

Predominantly 6- and 8-pane upper, plate glass lower timber sash and case glazing; uPVC replacement glazing at 1st floor to No 12 St Meddans Street. Graded grey slate piended roof; decorative red clay ridge tiles; cast-iron rainwater goods. Graded grey slate octagonal cap to corner tower. Corniced and banded red sandstone wallhead stacks; circular terracotta cans.

INTERIORS: No 2 Bentinck Drive: adapted for use as Bed and Breakfast accommodation. No 12 St Meddans Street: part-glazed timber panelled vestibule door; glazed, timber panelled side-light; replacement fanlights; remainder not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: stepped, low coped red sandstone wall enclosing site to front; taller, red brick wall enclosing garden to rear.