The Gables, 2 Corsehill Road, Ayr

The Gables is a detached villa located at 2 Corsehill Road in Ayr, designed by architect J.K. Hunter in 1905. This two-storey and attic building features an asymmetrical plan with six bays and is situated on a corner site. The exterior is harled and whitewashed.

The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a banded rusticated entrance leading to the penultimate bartizan bay on the outer right, with a timber door and an iron lamp to the left. There is a single window at the first floor of the bartizan and a crenellated parapet. To the outer right, there are single windows on both the ground and first floors. The left side features two single windows flanked by two narrower windows at the ground floor, with a single window at the first floor of the gable, showcasing decorative arched work above the lintel. The penultimate bay on the left also has single windows at both levels, and there is a single window at the ground floor with a ball finial above the parapet.

The southeast elevation, facing Monument Road, has five bays. It includes three single windows at both the ground and first floors of a gabled bay on the left, which has windows of differing sizes that are not aligned, along with a narrow arrowslit window in the attic. There is a single window at the first floor of the canted section to the right and another single window at the ground floor on the outer right.

The northwest and northeast elevations were not visible in 1999. The villa predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with some fixed windows. The roof is covered with red slate and includes timber mutulated eaves in part, wallhead gabled coped stacks, and circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

Additionally, there is an ancillary structure with a steeply gabled roof, square-plan coped gatepiers at the vehicular entrance with panelled two-leaf gates, harled gatepiers at the pedestrian entrance with a timber gate, and red ashlar pedestrian gatepiers along Monument Road with a timber gate. A coped rubble boundary wall encloses the site.