Dolphin House, 25 Midton Road, Ayr

Dolphin House, located at 25 Midton Road in Ayr, dates back to around 1807 and features later additions. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay classical house built from harled rubble. The building includes cill courses, an eaves course, a cornice, and a blocking course, with painted margins around the window openings.

On the east elevation, there is an advanced central bay with a pediment, a fluted Doric column porch, a two-leaf timber door, and a split letterbox fanlight. Above the door, there is a single window aligned at the first floor, along with a roundel panel in the pediment. The flanking bays have regular fenestration, and there are two single dormers in the attic on the outer right and left.

The south elevation features two single windows at both the ground and first floors on the main gable, with the ground floor window on the left being smaller and non-aligned. Attached to this side is a gabled timber greenhouse with a glazed timber door. To the left, there is a two-bay section with two single windows at both floors, where the left windows are non-aligned and vary in size.

On the west elevation, there is a single window in the advanced gable on the outer right. A timber door is located at the ground floor, with a single window aligned above at the first floor in the re-entrant angle to the right. There is also a single window at the ground floor to the right, and additional single windows at both floors in the central bay, which includes an extra central stair window. A single window is found at the first floor of the bay to the left, and there is a two-leaf entrance leading to a glazed and boarded later addition.

The north elevation has a single window at the ground floor of the gable and a timber door with a letterbox fanlight on the outer right, which connects to an ancillary structure.

The house predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, and coped gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1999. There is an ancillary structure, gatepiers, and a boundary wall to the northwest of the site, which includes a stepped rubble ancillary structure, two pairs of square-plan gatepiers, a coped boundary wall, and modern fencing.