Unionist Club, 2-4 New Road, Ayr

The Unionist Club, located at 2-4 New Road in Ayr, is a former club building designed by James A Morris and JK Hunter in 1891. This three-storey, eight-bay structure is built from sandstone rubble and features a base course, a first-floor band course, and timber bracketed eaves on the southwest elevation, with slightly raised window margins.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, the design is grouped in a 2-4-2 arrangement. The central entrance features a round arch leading to a four-bay section, with a two-leaf timber door on the left, a painted segmental-headed pediment, and glazed brick to the right. Above the entrance, there is multi-paned glazing and a split fanlight, flanked by sunken circular panels. The ground floor has two single windows on either side, while the first floor boasts four deep windows. To the left, a corniced entrance leads to a two-bay section with another two-leaf timber door, a partly infilled multi-paned letterbox fanlight, and a single window to the right. This section features two pairs of bipartite windows on the first floor and a roundel beneath the eaves, rising to form a corniced parapet with a bipartite window on the second floor. The two-bay section to the outer right has regular fenestration across all floors and rises to form a gablehead at the second floor.

The southwest elevation is three bays wide, featuring a central canted window at ground level and a plaque to the left. The first floor has three single corniced windows, while the second floor includes a central tripartite window that breaks the eaves, forming a timber gable.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with a split lower pane and six-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring stone skews, roll-moulded skewputts, and gablehead and wallhead stacks.

The boundary wall on the southwest elevation is low and coped, with modern railings on top. The interior was not seen in 1998.