Upper Fairport, 34 Racecourse Road, Ayr

Upper Fairport, located at 34 Racecourse Road in Ayr, is a Jacobean-style villa built around 1825, with later additions. This two-storey, three-bay building sits on a corner site and features an entrance elevation made of ashlar, while the Blackburn Road elevation is constructed from squared sandstone and harl. The villa has a base course, timber eaves, and decorative bargeboarding on the gables, supported by long cantilever brackets.

The southeast entrance elevation showcases a double-gabled design with a single-storey central entrance porch. To the right gable, there is a ball-finialled balustrade leading to a segmental-headed doorpiece, which includes a glazed timber door and a small-paned fanlight. A single window is located on the left gable, with a bipartite window above it on the first floor. The left side features an advanced gabled bay with a mullioned and transomed canted window at the ground floor, a bracketed and finialled stone roof, and a tripartite window on the first floor, topped with a labelmould. The right bay has a tripartite window at the ground floor and a non-aligned bipartite window on the first floor.

The northeast Blackburn Road elevation consists of seven bays arranged in a 1-3-3 grouping. An advanced gabled bay is positioned on the outer left, with a cat-slide roof covering the lower section. The three central bays also have a cat-slide roof, with a glazed timber door and two windows at the re-entrant angle to the right. Above the cat-slide roof, there are two single windows aligned, along with single windows at both the ground and first floors to the right. Near the center, there is a timber door flanked by single windows on both outer sides, with additional single windows at the first floor and a single window forming a gablet in the attic on the outer left. The courtyard return features single windows at the ground floor and attic. The southeast return has five bays, with a timber glazed door in the penultimate bay to the left, a pentice porch above, flanking single windows, and a timber door to the right, along with a square-headed entrance on the outer right.

The villa predominantly features plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a slate roof, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks, and circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior was not seen in 1999. The property is enclosed by square-plan gatepiers with ball finials and a coped boundary wall.