3 Savoy Park, Ayr

This is a near T-plan detached house of 1893, designed by James A Morris, situated in Ayr. The building is two storeys and has an attic, and exhibits Art Nouveau detailing. It is constructed from stugged red sandstone and harl, with a first-floor string course and timber eaves.

The south-east elevation, the main facade, features an advanced Dutch-gabled bay with an entrance. A buttress is positioned to the left, and above the corniced doorpiece is a square-headed relieving arch with a recessed timber door. There is a bipartite square opening to the right, and a date and name stone above. At first floor level is a narrow single window, with slim shafts rising centrally through the Dutch gable and from the canted corner angles, terminating in finials. The ground floor has a single window, and the first floor has two to the re-entrant angle to the left, and a single window to the right. Three stained windows are set into recessed bays on the ground floor to the left, with two single windows on the first floor; a single window is above and a flat-roofed dormer is visible in the attic. To the right, the ground floor has three single windows, the first floor two, and a flat-roofed dormer is again visible in the attic. A leaded inner stair window is positioned centrally, flanked by narrow windows that break the string course, and another window is in the attic level. A glazed timber entrance leads to a lean-to on the outer right.

The north-west rear elevation has single windows at ground floor within a harled canted bay, and bipartite windows in a corbelled first floor bay, topped by a corniced plaque and a finial. A quadripartite transomed and mullioned window is located to the right on the ground floor, accompanied by a bipartite window on the first floor, and a quadripartite flat-roofed dormer with a segmental pediment in the attic. To the left, a single window is positioned above a relieving arch, and a bipartite window is on the first floor. A shallow segmental tripartite oriel window is located on the first floor to the outer left, and a glazed timber door opens to a lean-to on the ground floor.

The north-east side elevation features bipartite windows flanking a tall, banded wallhead stack at attic level. A catslide roof slopes down to meet a boundary wall. The south-west side elevation shows a single window to the right at ground floor, and single windows flanking a tall wallhead stack at attic level.

The windows incorporate a variety of glazing patterns: leaded, timber sash and case, and casement. The roof is slate, with stone skews, skewputts, and rooflights. Timber eaves are present, as well as pitch and gablehead coped, harled stacks and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are used.

Internally, the house features a variety of predominantly timber fireplaces, some with decorative tiled surrounds, timber dado panelling in the bathroom, a timber box toilet, a timber balustraded arched staircase, a Kemco range (from Glasgow), a timber panelled entrance porch, and stained and leaded windows. Interesting interior walling is formed from stones and heads collected on Morris’ travels.

A sundial with a polygonal base, carved shaft, table dial, and metal gnomon is present, along with channelled square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps, a two-leaf timber gate, a pedestrian keystoned entrance, another timber gate, and a coped boundary wall, castellated in parts, which encloses the site.