79 South Beach, Troon

This is an early 20th-century Free Style house located at 79 South Beach, Troon. The house is asymmetrical, with two main floors and three bays, as well as a single-story, single-bay projection set back to the outer left and a later single-story addition set back to the outer right.

The ground floor is constructed of squared and snecked, stugged red sandstone, while the first floor is whitewashed harl. Polished sandstone dressings are used throughout, with a prominent full-height sandstone entrance tower. The base has a chamfered plinth, and the first floor slightly overhangs. The eaves are overhanging, supported by timber, and the gables have timber bargeboards. Rake-jointed polished quoins are at ground level, and rake-jointed long and short surrounds feature around the openings. The windows have sandstone mullions and transoms, and corbelled, architraved cills are present at the first floor.

The southwest (entrance) elevation showcases the full-height entrance tower, which is offset to the right of the centre. This tower contains a part-glazed, timber panelled door with an architraved, roll-moulded, and pedimented surround, with a window in the reveal to the right. Above, a five-light canted window breaks through the eaves, topped with a crenellated parapet. A single window is located at ground level within the bay recessed to the right, with a blind window above. A modern addition is recessed to the outer right. A tripartite window is at ground level within the bay recessed to the left, with a gabled bipartite window breaking through the eaves above. A single window sits within the single-story projection recessed to the outer left.

The northwest (side) elevation is three bays wide (two bays at ground level) and features swept eaves on a blind, single-story projection. A buttressed wallhead stack is centrally placed, and a gabled window breaks through the eaves at the first floor in the bay to the right. A single window is at the first floor in the bay to the left. A bipartite window is recessed at ground level, offset to the left of the centre, and a bipartite window breaks through the eaves in the bay to the outer left.

The windows are predominantly timber casements with six and nine panes at the top, and plate glass at the bottom; some smaller, leaded panes are also present. The roof is red tile, piended and swept at the eaves, and it retains its original cast-iron rainwater goods. The whitewashed harl wallhead stacks are topped with moulded sandstone copes and circular terracotta cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

The property is enclosed by a coped, stepped brick wall. Circular-plan, coursed brick piers with hemispherical caps flank the entrance from South Beach, with a replacement gate. Similar gatepiers flank the entrance from Yorke Road.