The Gables, 2 Corsehill Road, Ayr

JK Hunter, 1905. 2-storey and attic, 6-bay asymmetrical-plan, detached villa on corner site. Harled and whitewashed.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: banded rusticated entrance to penultimate bartizan bay to outer right; timber door; iron lamp to left; single window at 1st floor to bartizan; crenellated parapet. Single windows at ground and 1st floor to bay to outer right. 2 single windows flanked by 2 narrower windows at ground floor to left; single window at 1st floor to gable (decorative arched work to upper lintel). Single windows at ground and 1st floor to penultimate bay to left. Single window at ground floor; ball finial to parapet above.

SE (MONUMENT ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay. 3 single windows at ground and 1st floor to gabled bay (differing sized and non-aligned) to left; narrow arrowslit window at attic. Single window at 1st floor to canted section to right. Single window at ground floor to outer right.

NW AND NE ELEVATIONS: not seen 1999.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; some fixed windows. Red slate roof; timber mutuled eaves (in part); wallhead gabled coped stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE, GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALL: steeply gabled ancillary structure; square-plan coped gatepiers to vehicular entrance, panelled 2-leaf gates; harled gatepiers to pedestrian entrance, timber gate; red ashlar pedestrian gatepiers to Monument Road; timber gate. Coped rubble boundary wall encloses site.