135 Bentinck Drive, Troon

1905-06; additions by John Rutherford Johnstone, Troon 1919; No 133 subdivided late 20th century (forming No 37 Bentinck Crescent). 2 storey, 3-bay pair of semi-detached Arts and Crafts style houses forming symmetrical 6-bay block. Whitewashed harl; overhanging timber eaves; red tile swept roofs. Projecting gable breaking eaves at centre; flat-roofed porches recessed to sides. Single storey, whitewashed harl garage blocks to E.

W (FRONT) ELEVATION: wide gable advanced at centre spanning 4 bays with 5 square-plan piers at ground beneath projecting upper floor; 2 4-light windows centred between piers at ground; small-paned doors in re entrant angles to left and right respectively (swept eaves forming porches); tripartite windows at ground in bays to left and right; 2 tripartite windows at 1st floor centred beneath apex. 4-light windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; 5-light cat-slide dormers breaking eaves off-set to left and right of centre respectively.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION NO 133 BENTINCK DRIVE AND 37 BENTINCK CRESCENT: 2-storey, 3-bay flat-roofed stair projection at centre; single door at ground in bay to right (No 37); small single window in bay to left; small single windows in all bays at 1st floor. Steps to 2-leaf timber door set in flat-roofed porch to right (No 133); surmounting cast-iron brattishing. Narrow ground floor lights in recessed, gabled bay to outer right; tripartite window at 1st floor off-set to left of stack. Bipartite window at ground in penultimate bay to outer left; tripartite box-dormer above; single window at ground in bay to outer left.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION NO 135 BENTINCK DRIVE: 2-storey, 3 bay flat-roofed stair projection at centre; small single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; small single windows in all bays at 1st floor. Steps to 2-leaf boarded timber door set in flat-roofed porch to left. Narrow ground floor lights in recessed, gabled bay to outer left; tripartite window at 1st floor off-set to right of stack. Bipartite window at ground in penultimate bay to outer right; tripartite box-dormer above; single window at ground in bay to outer right.

Small-pane timber casement glazing to main elevations; small-paned leaded glazing to projecting stair towers with inset heart-shaped decoration. Red tile roof; red ridge tiling; cast-iron rainwater goods. Whitewashed harl ridge and apex stacks; red tile pitches to stylised buttresses; circular terracotta cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL, ENTRANCE ARCHES AND GATES: stepped, whitewashed harl wall enclosing site. Round-arched vehicular and pedestrian entrance arches to Bentinck Crescent; flanking stylised buttresses with pitched red tile caps; decorative wrought-iron gates. 2-leaf boarded timber gate to No 135 from Bentinck Drive.