5 Academy Street, 59 Ayr Street, Troon

James Hay, dated 1900. 3-storey with attic, gabled Edwardian baroque shops, former post office and tenements on corner site; 5-bay to Ayr Street; 6-bay to Academy Street; single bay to S corner. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone; polished sandstone dressings (lightly droved in part); rendered side elevation to Academy Street. Raised corner plinth; ground floor banding between openings (shopfronts to outer left); architraved corbel course to 1st floor oriel; architraved cill course at 2nd floor; corniced eaves; balustraded parapet. Predominantly round arched openings at ground; square headed windows to upper floors (corniced with blocked surrounds in part); projecting cills; some columnar mullions at 2nd floor; bipartite and single windows. 2nd floor corniced gabled windows comprising corbelled plinths, flanking columns, central pilasters beneath round arched, pedimented Dutch gableheads; flanking ball finials.

SW (AYR STREET) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground off-set to right of centre; single windows in remaining bays to right; shops in remaining bays to left; regularly fenestrated above. Single windows set in columnar frames at 2nd floor in penultimate bays to outer left and right; single keystoned windows centred in surmounting gableheads; balustraded parapet set between.

S (CORNER) ELEVATION: 3 narrow segmental-arched and key stoned windows at ground; 3-light canted oriel at 1st floor; 3 light canted window aligned at 2nd floor; symmetrically-disposed armorial panels set in parapet above.

SE (ACADEMY STREET) ELEVATION: 4-light, round-arched glazing row at ground off-set to left of centre; single window at ground in bay to outer left; door missing in bay to right (No 5); timber panelled door in subsequent bay to right (No 7); bipartite window at ground in bay to outer right. Irregularly fenestrated at 1st and 2nd floors. Single windows set in columnar frame centred at 2nd floor; single keystoned window centred in surmounting gablehead; balustraded parapet to left.

Predominantly replacement glazing. Grey slate roof; raised skews; cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1997.