82, 84, 86 Portland Street, Troon

Circa 1905 with later addition. Near-symmetrical, 2-storey, 3-bay Edwardian baroque shops and tenements, with Art Nouveau details; large brick addition at rear. Coursed red sandstone ashlar; polished ashlar dressings; squared and snecked tooled red sandstone elevation to SW; brick elevation to NE; brick addition at rear. Raised base course; corniced ground floor shopfronts; corbelled cornice beneath balustraded parapet centred at 1st floor; coped wallhead. Slender cast-iron columns framing glazed shopfronts; cast foliate detailing to brackets. Pilastered entrance to upper floor; prominent corniced caps to giant order pilasters dividing 1st floor bays (gabled to outer left and right).

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: ground floor: 2-leaf timber panelled door off-set to left of centre (entrance upper floor); tripartite fanlight; flanking stylised pilasters forming door-surround. Shopfront to left comprising recessed, part-glazed timber panelled door; cast iron columns framing glazed front to outer left. Shopfront to right comprising recessed, part-glazed timber panelled door in penultimate bay to outer right; cast-iron columns framing flanking fronts. 1st floor: foliate swags framing central oval window; raised keystone; carved handshake motif centred in balustraded parapet above. 3-light canted windows in bays to outer left and right; segmental-arched pediments to central lights; oculi centred in gables above.

Plate glass shopfronts at ground; predominantly replacement glazing at 1st floor; small-pane casements to central oval and upper oculi openings. Grey slate roof; raised skews; corniced red brick apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.