Cessford, 17 Crosbie Road, Troon

Cessford, located at 17 Crosbie Road in Troon, is a Free Style house built around 1901-1902, possibly by architect James Archibald Morris. This asymmetrical, two-storey building with an attic features three bays, with a full-height single bay recessed to the outer left and a balustraded porte-cochere at the front. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, with polished sandstone dressings and a polished ashlar porte-cochere. The design includes overhanging timber bracketed eaves, polished quoins, and polished long and short surrounds to chamfered openings, along with chamfered cills and sandstone mullions. The front also has rubble sandstone walls that enclose a sunken garden. To the east, there is a single-storey, three-bay modern garage block.

On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there is a replacement, part-glazed timber panelled door set in a basket-arched surround, offset to the right of centre. To the left, a tripartite glazing row features basket-arched surrounds. The arcaded porte-cochere at the front has a balustraded parapet and ball-finialed piers. A six-light canted window is centered in a skewed gable on the first floor. The outer right bay has projecting five-light windows on both floors, with a crenellated parapet that breaks the eaves at the first floor and a three-light cat-slide dormer above. The left bay of the entrance features a four-light canted window at ground level, a crenellated parapet, a tripartite window on the first floor, and another three-light cat-slide dormer above. The outer left bay has tripartite windows on both floors.

Throughout the house, there are replacement two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is slightly bell-cast, covered with red tiles, and features decorative ridge tiling and raised skews. The property has decorative rainwater goods, coped ridge and wallhead stacks, and circular terracotta cans.

The sunken garden is enclosed by low coped walls, with ball finials flanking the stairs from the upper level. The boundary wall is made of tooled cream rubble sandstone with polished coping and features ball finials. It includes a timber pedestrian entry gate, with polished square-plan piers flanking the original entrance, which has a dentilled cornice and pyramidal caps surmounting sculpted balls, along with replacement gates. Modern square-plan piers flank the inner entrance.