137 Bentinck Drive, Troon

James Miller, circa 1900. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay Arts and Crafts style house recessed at centre with flanking gabled and piended bays; single storey porch recessed to outer right. Whitewashed harl; painted margins; red tile-hanging beneath gablehead. Painted base course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves; bolted timber bargeboards to gableheads (tile-hung to W).

W (BENTINCK DRIVE) ELEVATION: bipartite window centred at ground; 2-light cat-slide dormer off-set to right above. Single window at ground in full-height piended, projecting bay to outer right; bipartite window aligned at 1st floor. Projecting gabled bay to outer left comprising bipartite window at ground off-set to right of centre; canted window on single timber bracket centred at 1st floor beneath tile-hung apex. Porch recessed to outer right.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Red sandstone, ball-finialed steps to advanced, boldly buttressed porch in bays to left of centre; part-glazed timber panelled door to right; timber brackets beneath surmounting canopy; single windows in 2 bays to left. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right. Single window breaking eaves beneath gabled bay to outer right; single window breaking eaves off-set to right of gabled bay to left; buttressed wallhead stack to outer left.

Small-paned leaded timber casement glazing throughout. Swept red tile roofs; pantile ridge detailing; cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone coping to whitewashed harl ridge and wallhead stacks (pantiled buttressing to S); circular terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: red sandstone coping to stepped, whitewashed harl wall enclosing site to front. Square-plan piers flanking entrance; pyramidal sandstone caps; timber gates.