5 Alloway Place, Ayr

5 Alloway Place in Ayr is a terrace of five houses designed by James Paton in the early 19th century. The building is two stories high, with attics at the rear, and features a three-bay layout. It is constructed of polished ashlar, with coursed sandstone on the sides and a rusticated ground floor. The exterior includes a vermiculated base course, a band course that runs parallel to the block-pediments of the doorpieces, a first-floor cill course, aprons, a cornice, and a blocking course.

The entrance elevation has steps leading up to the block-pedimented columned doorpieces on the left bay of each house. These doorpieces feature fluted columns and a modillion cornice, with timber doors that are two-leaf for Nos 2 and 3. No 4 has a letterbox fanlight with three lights, while there are two single windows to the right at ground level and regular fenestration on the first floor.

The north side elevation has a single window to the right at ground level and two single windows on the first floor, with a boundary wall to the outer right. The south side elevation features steps leading to a recessed entrance for No 5A (Pladda View), which has a modern glazed door and a single window aligned above on the first floor. There are infilled openings in the left bay at both ground and first floors, along with a boundary wall to the outer left.

The windows throughout the building are plate glass timber sash and case, with textured glazing on the first-floor windows of the north elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone skews, rooflights, and coped stacks, with the stacks on the left being of lower height and including circular and polygonal cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The boundary walls have low ashlar copes on the east elevation.