Kensal Tower, 65 Bellevue Crescent, Ayr

Kensal Tower, located at 65 Bellevue Crescent in Ayr, is an Italianate villa built around 1887. It features two stories and an exposed basement, with an asymmetrical two-bay plan and a four-stage square-plan tower. There is also a single-storey section to the southeast. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, with a ground floor cill course, a dividing band course between the ground and first floors, a bracketed eaves course, and a cornice.

On the west entrance elevation, steps lead up to a recessed tower on the outer left, which has a pierced balustrade and ball finials on the newel posts. There are band courses at the springing line of the doorpiece at the second stage and between the second and third stages, along with a cill course at the fourth stage. The tower features a two-leaf timber door at the second stage with a fanlight above it, a single window at the third stage, and a bipartite window at the fourth stage. The outer right has two advanced bays, with a slightly advanced bipartite bay at the basement and a single window on the ground floor to the left. A single window at the first floor breaks the eaves, and there is a canted bay on the outer right. The fenestration is regular across all floors, with no windows on the canted faces of the basement. To the right, there is a recessed single-storey section.

The north side elevation is two-bay, featuring a timber entrance door on the outer left, a narrow arrow slit window to the right at the first stage of the tower, and two single windows at the second and third stages, with a round-arched window to the right at the second stage. A bipartite window is located at the fourth stage of the tower on the outer right.

The east and south elevations were not visible in 1999. The windows are predominantly plate glass and four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is low-pitched and piended, made of slate, with timber bracketed eaves, brick ridge and pitch stacks, and polygonal cans. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1999. Surrounding the property is a high coped boundary wall that encloses the site, with a timber vehicular gate to the right and a timber pedestrian gate to the left.