58 Bentinck Drive, Troon

Early 20th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, near T-plan Arts and Crafts style house on corner site; 3-bay to Bentinck Drive; 3-bay to Yorke Road. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone at ground to main block (running SW-NE); whitewashed harl at 1st floor; polished red sandstone dressings; whitewashed harl at both floors to gabled wing projecting to NW. Chamfered plinth rising to ground floor cill course; 1st floor slightly oversailing; overhanging timber bracketed eaves; swept timber bargeboards with regularly spaced bolts. Polished quoins at ground; rake-jointed long and short surrounds to ground and 1st floor openings; sandstone mullions and transoms; chamfered cills at ground (flush at 1st floor).

NE (BENTINCK DRIVE) ELEVATION: part-glazed timber panelled door at ground in bay to outer left; architraved surround with angled crenellation to parapet. Tripartite window at ground in advanced bay off-set to left of centre; 4-light glazing row at 1st floor. Single window centred in recessed bay to outer right; flanking narrow single windows; 4-light glazing row beneath cat-slide roof breaking eaves above.

SE (YORKE ROAD) ELEVATION: bipartite window at ground off-set to left of centre; bipartite window centred in gable above. Bipartite windows at both floors in bay to outer right. Projecting 5 light window at ground in bay to outer left; corniced parapet; tripartite window centred in gable above. Single window set in lean to addition recessed to outer left.

Predominantly 9-pane upper, plate glass lower timber casement glazing at ground; 8- and 15-pane timber casement glazing to remaining openings; uPVC window to single storey lean-to addition. Red tile swept roofs; cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded red sandstone copes to whitewashed ridge and wallhead stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: sandstone coping to stepped, harled wall enclosing site. Coursed sandstone square-plan piers flanking corner entry (E); ball-finials; timber pedestrian entry gate. Square-plan whitewashed piers flanking entry from Bentinck Drive; pyramidal caps; timber pedestrian entry gate. Timber vehicular access gates.