135 South Beach, Troon

Late 19th century. Pair of 2-storey with attic, 4-bay Baronial semi detached houses forming symmetrical 8-bay block; recessed at centre; engaged 3-storey towers in penultimate bays to outer left and right; crowstepped, gabled bays recessed to outer left and right; single storey square-plan porches in outer re-entrant angles. Additional 2 storey, crowstepped gabled wing recessed to right No 137. Squared and snecked red bull-faced sandstone; polished red ashlar dressings. No base course; ground floor string course to outer towers; nailhead moulding to hoodmoulded panels dividing upper floors; corbelled eaves beneath conical caps; iron finials; overhanging timber bracketed corniced eaves recessed at centre. Chamfered surrounds to openings; sandstone mullions; decorative timber gableheads to central dormers.

W (SOUTH BEACH) ELEVATION: tripartite windows centred at ground; bipartite windows at 1st floor; bipartite dormers aligned above. Single windows at both floors in slightly advanced, crowstepped gabled bays to left and right respectively (round-arched hoodmoulds surmounting scalloped windowheads at 1st floor). Towers in penultimate bays to outer left and right comprising single windows at all floors (4-lights at 1st and 2nd floors). Single storey entrance porches recessed to outer left and right (No 135: coped, pilastered piers with plain parapet, corniced eaves, part-glazed timber panelled door, narrow side-lights; No 137: columnar piers with corniced eaves, ball-finialed parapet, replacement door, narrow side lights, plate glass fanlight); single windows set behind in 1st floor chamfers corbelled out to eaves above. Addition recessed to outer right No 137 comprising single openings at both floors; timber balcony with Art Nouveau detail at 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case glazing; replacement glazing at ground and 2nd floor No 137. Graded grey slate roof; red ridge tiling; crowstepped skews. Graded grey slates to conical caps. Replacement rainwater goods throughout. Coped red sandstone ridge and apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS: polished, chamfered coping to stepped, bull-faced rubble wall to South Beach. Coursed, circular plan piers flanking entrances; ball-finialed caps (single pier to No 137; missing finial).