Doonbrae Cottage, Alloway, Ayr

Doonbrae Cottage is an early 19th-century house and cottage located in Alloway, Ayr, with alterations made in the mid 19th century and early 20th century. It features a near square plan and is built with painted harl and timber eaves, along with painted margins around the window openings.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three bays. It includes steps leading to a gabled entrance porch at the central bay, featuring a two-leaf glazed timber door and a square panel at the gablehead. There are canted windows at both the ground and attic floors on the left side, while the right side has single windows at the basement and ground floor.

On the northeast elevation, there is an infilled opening leading to a single-storey section on the left. This side also has four single windows at the ground level, with a narrower window in the penultimate bay to the left, and two single windows breaking the eaves above in the attic.

The southeast elevation, facing Alloway, has six bays. It features a combination of single and tripartite windows in the central advanced section, with two single windows in the recessed sections on the outer right and left.

The cottage, also on the southeast elevation, is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a central timber door that has a letterbox fanlight, flanked by single windows. There is a recessed lean-to on the outer right. The cottage has a slate roof with pitch stacks and polygonal cans.

The property predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, along with a slate roof that includes ridge, wallhead, and pitch stacks, as well as circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Additional structures on the site include a single-storey garage to the south with a slate roof and stone skews, and a polygonal-plan shell grotto to the south of the house, which has timber seating, timber windows, a timber door, and a slate roof. A boundary wall with railings encloses the site, and railed stone steps lead to the cottage entrance. There are also harled rubble remains of a rabbit house to the west of the house.

The interiors were not seen in 1999.