11 Crosbie Road, Troon

11 Crosbie Road, Troon

A three-storey Free Style house dating from around 1900, with alterations carried out in 1915 and 1919 by architect James Hay of Kilmarnock. The building was subdivided later in the 20th century. A single-storey, single-bay block (possibly former service quarters) is recessed to the outer left.

The main house is asymmetrical across five bays. The composition features three advanced bays at the centre (with gabled bays at centre and right, and a square-plan tower to the left), a gabled bay recessed to the left, and heavy piloti supporting a bay recessed to the outer right.

The exterior is finished in whitewashed harl with red sandstone dressings and red tile-hanging beneath the gableheads. There is no base course. Overhanging timber eaves are bracketed at the sides and rear. Ground floor windows have chamfered reveals with sandstone mullions and transoms. Main first-floor windows have corniced sandstone surrounds; some second-floor windows feature corbelled, bowed cills. Ground floor openings in the rear re-entrant infill have long and short surrounds.

On the south-west (entrance) elevation, a tripartite window is centred at ground level, with a four-light window at first floor and a tripartite window beneath the apex. A five-light canted window sits at ground level offset to the right of centre, with a three-light opening at first floor containing a central door and three single windows aligned beneath the apex. A roll-moulded, segmental-arched door surround at ground level in the bay to the left of centre contains a single window. The first floor has a three-light opening with central door and a bipartite window at second floor. A parapet with wide-spaced balusters and an open bartizan to the left surmounts this section. The advanced first-floor balcony spanning the three central bays has regularly disposed columnar supports, a timber balustrade, and cast-iron consoles. The gabled bay recessed to the outer left contains a single door at ground level offset to the left of centre, with a tripartite window offset to the right, bipartite and tripartite windows at first floor, and a bipartite window beneath the apex. Piloti recessed to the outer right support upper storeys jettied out at first floor, with a bipartite window at first floor and a tripartite window above.

The north-east (rear) elevation comprises five bays grouped 1-1-1-2 beneath four bargeboarded gables stepped out from left to right. A four-light window at ground level in a single-storey addition in the re-entrant angle is offset to the left of centre, with irregularly fenestrated openings above. A four-light window at ground level in the outer left bay is complemented by a tile-hung canted oriel at first floor and a tripartite window beneath the apex. A sandstone surround frames the four-light window at ground level in the bay offset to the right of centre, with a four-light window at first floor and a tripartite window centred in the apex. Single openings at ground level in the bays to the outer right are accompanied by tripartite windows at first floor and second-floor windows flanking the wallhead stack beneath the apex.

The glazing is predominantly small-pane replacement timber. The roof is of red tile with cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone cornices run to the harled wallhead and apex stacks, which are topped with circular terracotta cans.

The interior was not seen at the time of survey in 1997.

A low balustrade with squat balusters and a moulded sandstone rail encloses the rear terrace. Swept stairs descend to the garden (now a parking area).

The boundary wall enclosing the site to Crosbie Road is harled with sandstone coping and stepped construction. Square-plan, coursed sandstone piers flank the former entrance, featuring corniced caps and surmounting ball-shaped finials. A low wall now blocks the entrance.