Welbeck Hotel, Bentinck Drive, Troon

Circa 1911; additions 1922 and 1925 Henry Brown, Troon; adapted for use as residential home late 20th century. Asymmetrical, 2-storey, 6-bay house in style of Baillie Scott; grouped 1-1-2-1-1 with 2 storey wing recessed to outer right; single storey wing at rear. Whitewashed harl; overhanging eaves; red tile piended roofs with pitched gables. Buttressed angles to projecting gabled bays; harled mullions at ground; small-pane strip windows at 1st floor set beneath eaves.

NE (FRONT) ELEVATION: segmental-arched entrance at ground in bay to outer left; corniced canopy; replacement timber door recessed within; single window aligned at 1st floor. Single window at ground in bay to right; 2-light window above. Advanced, gabled bay off-set to left of centre comprising tripartite window at ground; 6-light glazing row centred beneath apex. Small-paned door at ground in subsequent bay to right; 4-light window above; tripartite window at ground in bay to right. Quadripartite window at ground off-set to right of centre; 6-light glazing row at 1st floor. Advanced, gabled bay in penultimate bay to outer right comprising 2-light window at ground; 6-light glazing row centred beneath apex. Quadripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; 2-light window above. Horizontal opening at ground in bay recessed to outer right; blind at 1st floor.

Small-paned timber casement glazing throughout (shallow openings at 1st floor). Red tile roofs; cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped whitewashed harl, broad wallhead and ridge stacks; tapered to NE elevation with single shoulders; cans missing.

INTERIOR: adapted for use as old peoples' residential home with self-contained flats and various communal rooms. Not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND PIERS: low coped whitewashed harl wall to Bentinck Drive; stepped, taller wall to Yorke Road. Coped square-plan piers flanking vehicular entrance from Bentinck Drive.