Invercloy Hotel, 46 Racecourse Road, Ayr

The Invercloy Hotel, located at 46 Racecourse Road in Ayr, is a baronial-style detached villa designed by D MacGibbon around 1860. This two-storey building features a basement and an attic, with a distinctive five-bay façade and a French pavilion-roofed tower. It is constructed from squared sandstone and includes a base course and crowstepped gables.

The southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, has steps leading to a gabled, arched entrance porch situated in the penultimate bay on the right. This porch features two-leaf timber doors and a shield above. There is a bipartite window in the recessed square-plan tower aligned to the rear, along with a bracketed eaves course and a tall French pavilion roof topped with a wrought-iron weather-vane. The outer right has an advanced gabled bay with a quadripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor, as well as a square panel in the gablehead. A lean-to structure with a garage is located to the outer right. To the left of the entrance, there is a tripartite window in the basement and tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, which feature dated apron panels and trefoil heads. A sculpted tympanum is also present, along with a single corniced window in the attic that has a decorative panel and strapwork above. The penultimate bay to the left has single windows on both the ground and first floors, while the outer left bay has a bipartite window at ground level and a single window above.

The southwest elevation, facing Bentfield Avenue, consists of two bays with a modern addition to the outer left. Both bays feature tripartite windows in the exposed basement, with a single window in the left bay at ground level and single windows in both bays on the first floor. The right gabled bay has an attic window, while the left has a modern dormer and railings. A narrow slit window is present in the corbelled corner turret to the left.

The northwest elevation was not visible in 1999, and the northeast elevation is predominantly blank, with a window set in the gable adjoining the tower on the right and a modern addition to the outer right.

The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with nepus, gablehead, and ridge coped stacks, as well as circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1999. The property is enclosed by a coped rubble boundary wall.