Troon Golf Club, 2 Craigend Road, Troon

Troon Golf Club, 2 Craigend Road, Troon

This single-storey golf club with attic space and gabled form was designed by Henry Edward Clifford in 1885-86. The building forms a near square plan and has been substantially extended: dressing rooms were added in 1897, a large addition followed in 1905, and a curved porch was added in 1926 by John Rutherford Johnstone. Single-storey additions were made in the earlier 21st century.

The entrance elevation is finished in squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with stugged and polished sandstone dressings. The west and south elevations are coursed ashlar, while later additions are painted harl with painted margins. The building features tooled quoins to the entrance elevation, long and short surrounds to openings, and a corniced parapet to a columnar porch. Throughout, there are chamfered sandstone mullions and transoms with chamfered cills and moulded round-arched hoodmoulds. A decorative cast-iron balcony is positioned on the west elevation, and a glazed veranda extends from the south.

The north elevation contains a long range with projecting gabled bays at centre and outer right, linked by a shallow-curved colonnade forming a large open porch. Steps lead to a part-glazed timber turnstile door. Single and bipartite windows flank the central projection, with a box-dormer offset to the right of centre. A circular panel dated 1886 is centred in the outer right gabled bay, above which is a round-arched bipartite window set in a skewed gable with block stops to the hoodmould. A wing recessed to the outer left contains bipartite and single windows.

The west elevation is a near-symmetrical five-bay gabled range at its centre, featuring a four-light canted window at ground level, above which are three small round-arched upper windows set in a recessed semi-circular panel. A clock sits beneath the apex. Single and tripartite windows occupy the ground floor of flanking bays, with a sculpted panel in an architraved semi-circular recess in the dormerhead to the right and a round-arched window in the dormerhead to the left. Four-light canted windows appear at ground level in the outer left and right bays, each topped by three small round-arched upper windows in recessed semi-circular panels and finialled gables. An anthemion frieze decorates the cast-iron balcony, which spans the central bays with heavy console supports offset to the right of centre. A segmental-arched columnar arcade with polished granite shafts and waterleaf capitals is positioned offset to the left. Single-storey wings to the outer left and right have tripartite and canted bipartite windows respectively at ground level.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a lean-to veranda on timber supports connecting broad canted windows in a bay to the outer left and a bay offset to the right of centre. The central gable is irregularly fenestrated at ground level, with a porch offset to the right of centre. A round-arched bipartite window is centred in the gablehead, with a corbelled cill and a clock-face breaking the hoodmould with block stops. A bipartite window occupies the ground floor of the penultimate bay to the outer right, with a broad canted window in the outer right bay.

The east elevation has an entrance offset to the left of centre, with three single windows in an advanced gabled bay to the outer left and single windows in the remaining bays to the right. A two-bay lean-to projection extends from the outer right.

The roof is covered in grey slate with red ridge tiling and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped ridges, apex and wallhead stacks with circular cans are present throughout. Windows are predominantly timber sash and case with two panes, though later additions incorporate modern glazing and some rooflights.

The interior contains a domed vestibule light and boarded timber dado panelling with a timber-panelled reception desk. The dining room is particularly impressive, featuring a half-timbered hammerbeam ceiling.

Boundary walls and gatepiers survive: a polished-coped rubble sandstone wall fronts Crosbie Road, with harled circular-plan piers flanking the entrance (formerly to Craigend House) topped by sandstone flame finials, though the gates are missing. A coped rubble wall borders Craigend Road, with harled circular-plan piers and sandstone flame finials at the corner, now featuring a timber gate.