5 Bruce Crescent, Ayr

5 Bruce Crescent is a cottage ornee built in the later 19th century. It is a single storey with an attic, constructed of ashlar stone with lighter pinnings, and features ball and spike finials on the gables.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central gabled timber porch with elaborate timber bargeboards and Jacobean style brackets. It includes a timber door with a bipartite letterbox fanlight above, flanked by bipartite windows. Above, in the gabled dormers, are single round-arched windows, and there is a bipartite window in a modern flat-roofed dormer that connects the gables.

The windows have 4- and 6-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, while the modern attic link has plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring a timber eaves course, coped gablehead stacks, and both circular and polygonal chimney cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by a coped boundary wall, which includes a single gatepier to the right of the vehicular entrance on the left, and a wall-mounted postbox on the outer right side.