Troon, Southwood Road, Auchenkyle House

Alexander David Hislop and John Campbell, 1905-7. Large, 2-storey and attic, L-plan, Queen Anne style house with tall, distinctive shouldered chimney stacks, set within private grounds. The house is red brick with brick quoins and has steeply sloping, bell-cast slate roofs and a deep modillioned cornice. There are segmental-arched windows to the ground floor. The advanced entrance bay to the north has a ball-finialled stone doorpiece with a segmental-arch canopy. The garden elevation to the south west has one advanced canted bay and one advanced piended roofed bay. There are small, piended-roof dormers and two later conservatory additions.

The interior was seen in 2014. The house has a fine, high quality decorative scheme with timber panelling to the entrance hall, open-well staircase and corridors. The staircase has wine glass balusters and carved handrail. There is some fine decorative plasterwork, particularly to the shallow-vaulted corridor to the ground floor and to some of the public rooms. The plasterwork has fruit and flower motifs. There are decorative, carved timber fire surrounds to some of the rooms.

The windows are predominantly plate-glass timber sash and case, with a pair of cross-pane lead light windows to the stairwell and a small, circular window on the north elevation. The slates are grey.

Lodge on Southwood Road: Alexander David Hislop, 1905-7. Single-story and attic 3-bay, square-plan, symmetrical Queen Anne style lodge with steeply sloping bell-cast roofs, a central chimney stack and flat-roofed dormers. The lodge is built of red brick with a stone base course and with deep, overhanging eaves. There are raised cills to the segmental-arched windows. Later, piend-roofed extension to rear.

The windows are mostly 6-over 9-pane timber sash and case to the ground with smaller sash and case windows to the attic storey.

The interior was seen in 2014 and the original room layout is largely unaltered, comprising several smaller rooms and a straight stair to the upper floor.