High Greenan, Doonfoot, Ayr is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 April 1991. Mansion. 3 related planning applications.

High Greenan, Doonfoot, Ayr

WRENN ID
half-copper-martin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 April 1991
Type
Mansion
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

High Greenan, located in Doonfoot, Ayr, is an Arts and Crafts mansion dating from 1910, possibly designed by James Carrick and originally commissioned by J K Hunter of Ayr. This English Manor House-style building is set within its own grounds and includes a lodge and gatepiers. The structure features an asymmetrical, roughly T-shaped plan with a complex arrangement of gables and is finished in grey dry-dash.

The north elevation, which serves as the entrance, showcases a long range with an asymmetrical two-storey and attic main block that has randomly placed openings. The entrance is located in an advanced gable to the left, featuring a segmentally arched doorway with a deeply recessed boarded timber door, wrought-iron fittings, and an incised inscription above that reads, "Here we have no continuing city." To the left of the entrance is a tiny closet window, with a tall stair window positioned above. To the right, there is a bipartite window on the first floor and a single attic window. An adjoining long four-bay wing on the right has three irregular gables and features mullioned bipartite and multi-light windows. The deeply recessed gable to the left has an asymmetrically stepped projecting chimney stack.

On the south elevation, the main block of the house has a pair of gables on the right, with the outer gable featuring a canted bay that rises through two floors, displaying bipartite windows on each elevation and also in the attic. The left gable has three windows at the ground floor and a tripartite arrangement above. There is a recessed L-plan bay on the outer left, which now accommodates a garage accessed from a blind west gable.

The east elevation features an advanced canted bay at the ground floor that spans the gable and outer left bay, with tall mullioned windows on each elevation and a bipartite window above on the first floor.

Inside, the mansion presents a simple Arts and Crafts interior with some Jacobean detailing, including dark timber panelling and a Jacobean fire surround on the ground floor. Brass light fittings from the original design also remain.

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