Welbeck Hotel, Bentinck Drive, Troon is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Welbeck Hotel, Bentinck Drive, Troon
- WRENN ID
- hollow-soffit-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Welbeck Hotel, Bentinck Drive, Troon, KA10 6HZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 326 304
- Coordinates
- 55.53877, -4.65361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Welbeck Hotel, located on Bentinck Drive in Troon, was built around 1911, with additions made in 1922 and 1925 by Henry Brown of Troon. It has since been adapted for use as a residential home in the late 20th century. This asymmetrical, two-storey, six-bay house is designed in the style of Baillie Scott, featuring a grouped layout of 1-1-2-1-1, with a two-storey wing set back to the outer right and a single-storey wing at the rear. The exterior is finished with whitewashed harl, has overhanging eaves, and is topped with red tile piended roofs and pitched gables. The building has buttressed angles at the projecting gabled bays, harled mullions at the ground level, and small-pane strip windows on the first floor, which are set beneath the eaves.
On the northeast (front) elevation, there is a segmental-arched entrance at ground level in the outer left bay, featuring a corniced canopy and a replacement timber door that is recessed. Above this entrance, there is a single window aligned on the first floor. To the right, there is a single window at ground level and a two-light window above it. An advanced gabled bay is offset to the left of center, which includes a tripartite window at ground level and a six-light glazing row centered beneath the apex. There is a small-paned door at ground level in the next bay to the right, with a four-light window above it, followed by a tripartite window at ground level in the bay to the right. A quadripartite window is located at ground level, offset to the right of center, with a six-light glazing row on the first floor. The penultimate bay on the outer right features an advanced gabled bay with a two-light window at ground level and a six-light glazing row centered beneath the apex. The outer right bay has a quadripartite window at ground level and a two-light window above. There is a horizontal opening at ground level in the bay recessed to the outer right, with a blind at the first floor.
The building features small-paned timber casement glazing throughout, with shallow openings on the first floor. The roofs are covered with red tiles, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. The walls are coped with whitewashed harl, and there are broad wallhead and ridge stacks that taper towards the northeast elevation, with single shoulders and missing cans.
Inside, the building has been adapted for use as an old people's residential home, containing self-contained flats and various communal rooms. The interior was not seen in 1997.
The boundary walls consist of a low coped whitewashed harl wall along Bentinck Drive and a taller stepped wall along Yorke Road. Coped square-plan piers flank the vehicular entrance from Bentinck Drive.
Local climate
Welbeck Hotel, Bentinck Drive, Troon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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