Stables, Doonholm Estate, Ayr

Dated 1889. Single storey and 2-storey, 7-bay, courtyard plan former stable block, with L-plan stable block and kennels adjacent. Harled with raised cement-faced margins. Eaves course; eaves blocking course to 2-storey blocks of principal elevation.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; gabled 2-storey centre bay, round-arched pend to ground floor with impost detail, leading to courtyard; tooled sandstone Kennedy coat of arms to centre of gable, flanked to left by initials "JK" and to right by "1889". Single storey, 2-bay blocks adjoining to left and right, horizontal 2-pane window to each bay; 2-storey, single bay blocks to outer left and right; window to ground floor of block to right, segmental-arched window above; window to ground floor of block to left, window breaking eaves to 1st floor above. Stepped-up gatepier adjoining to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 7-bay; gatepiers adjoining to outer left; 2 segmental-arched openings near-centre of ground floor, flanked to left by small window and to right by broad pend to courtyard, 3 gableted windows breaking eaves above; boarded timber doors flanked by windows to left and right; single windows to ground and 1st floors of bay to outer left.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3 deep segmental-arched openings to bays to left; flanking bay to right advanced, canted bay with 3 windows to ground and 1st floor, boarded timber door to left, 2 windows to left return; bays adjoining to outer right not seen 1999.

SW ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 4-bay; segmental-arched openings to ground and 1st floors of 2 central bays; flanking bays to left and right stepped forward, Venetian window recessed in segmental-arch to ground floors, tripartite windows above.

COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: round-arched pend to centre of SE block, flanked by 2-leaf sliding boarded glazed timber doors, glazed canopy oversailing SE block. Variety of boarded timber doors flanked by irregularly spaced windows to ground floor of remaining elevations, gableted windows breaking eaves and skylights to attic floor.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND LOUPIN'-ON STANE: L-plan stable block and outbuilding to NE, boarded timber doors and irregularly spaced windows, segmental-arched openings, graded slate roof with lead ridges, skylights and ventilators. Small rectangular-plan kennels to NW of stables, harled with 2 runs to W, low walls surmounted by hooped iron railings, slate roof with overhanging eaves, skylights. Loupin'-on stane to NW of courtyard, rendered mounted blocks with 3 steps to left and right.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.