Berkeley Hotel, 1 Barns Street, Ayr

The Berkeley Hotel, located at 1 Barns Street in Ayr, dates back to around 1803, with later additions. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay classical house, featuring additional bays on the outer left and along Alloway Place. The exterior is finished in painted render and includes a base course, a cill course for the ground floor windows, a central dividing band course, an eaves course, a cornice, and strip quoins. The window openings have painted margins.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there are fluted Ionic columns supporting an entrance porch in the advanced, pedimented central bay. This bay features a corniced doorpiece and a timber door, with a cill course above a flat-headed Venetian window on the first floor, flanked by blind windows. The fascia displays the name 'Berkeley House', and there is a roundel in the pediment. The attic includes a three-light dormer. The recessed flanking bays have single windows at both the ground and first floors, while the later bay on the outer left has non-aligned single windows. A glazed timber door and shop window are located at the re-entrant angle.

The west (side) elevation consists of eleven bays, grouped in a 4-7 arrangement. The main house has four single windows at both the ground and first floors, with blind windows on the outer left at the ground level and in the penultimate bay to the left and outer right at the first floor. To the right, there is a recessed two-leaf timber door with a three-light fanlight in a later single-storey seven-bay section, flanked by two single windows. The outer left also has two single windows.

The building predominantly features plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piend design, with a platform roof on the later addition to the left. Rooflights, a pair of corniced ridge stacks, circular cans, and a single stack on the later single-storey seven-bay section are also present.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The boundary walls include a painted coped wall to the west and a coped brick wall to the east.