Ayr, 2 Castlehill Road, Market Inn

Late 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay public house. Red ashlar; polished to entrance elevation; squared to sides. Base course; banded ground floor with mutuled cornice; main mutuled cornice. Double-lugged architraves to 1st floor window openings.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: round-arched keystoned entrances to outer left and right; 2-leaf timber doors with dentilled cornices fanlights; 2-light central window; fascia over. Central 3-light window at 1st floor; small-paned roundel window to gablet at attic; flanking 2-light windows to outer right and left.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to outer left adjoined by 2-storey block with irregular fenestration; 3-bay block stepped down to outer right, with gabled central bay.

SW ELEVATION: predominantly obscured by additions; gabled with central windows.

SE ELEVATION: gabled bay to outer right, adjoined by 2-storey block; 3-bay block stepped down to outer left, with gabled central bay; irregular fenestration and door openings.

Predominantly 4- and 6-pane upper sashes to timber sash and case and casement windows. Slate roof; stone skews; moulded skewputts; wallhead and gable corniced stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: early 20th century decorative scheme still largely intact. Timber horseshoe bar counter with terrazzo spittoon at base and intergral water spouts; timber gantry. Decorative timber and red glazed tile fireplaces. Timber panelling; red and black tiled floor. Double timber inner swing doors with leaded and painted art nouveau glasswork; decorative cornice plasterwork. Upper room with timber fireplaces.

Gate: spiked iron gate to left.