Invercloy Hotel, 46 Racecourse Road, Ayr

D MacGibbon, circa 1860. 2-storey with basement and attic, 5-bay baronial detached villa with French pavilion-roofed tower. Squared sandstone. Base course; crowstepped gables.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to gabled, arched entrance porch in penultimate bay to right; 2-leaf timber doors; shield above; bipartite window to recessed square-plan tower aligned to rear; bracketted eaves course; tall French pavilion roof; wrought-iron weather-vane. Advanced gabled bay to outer right; quadripartite window at ground floor; bipartite window at 1st floor; square panel to gablehead (lean-to adjoins, with garage to outer right). Tripartite window at basement to gabled bay to left of entrance; ground and 1st floor tripartite windows (dated apron panels to ground floor windows, trefoil heads to 1st floor windows) set within segmental arch; sculpted tympanum; single corniced window at attic with panel and decorative strapwork above. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to penultimate bay to left. Bipartite window at ground floor; single window at 1st floor to bay to outer left.

SW (BENTFIELD AVENUE) ELEVATION: 2-bay with modern addition to outer left. Tripartite windows at both bays to exposed basement; single window to bay to left at ground floor; single windows to both bays at 1st floor; attic window to gabled bay to right; modern dormer and railings to attic to left; narrow slit window to corbelled corner turret to left. Modern addition to outer left.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

NE ELEVATION: predominantly blank; window set in gable adjoining tower to right; modern addition to outer right.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; nepus, gablehead and ridge coped stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped rubble boundary wall enclosing site.