Derclach, 24 Racecourse Road, Ayr

James A Morris, 1892-3. 2-storey, 4-bay, asymmetrical-plan gabled villa on corner site. Ashlar; squared, stugged sandstone and painted harl.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: re-entrant angle entrance to penultimate recessed bay to right; 2-leaf timber door; small-paned fanlight; decorative consoles support segmental cornice over; single window aligned above at 1st floor. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor to principal face of bay window to advanced, gabled bay to right; single windows to canted sides; single balusters flank gable. Bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor to penultimate gabled bay to left. Single window at 1st floor to left; window breaks eaves to form segmental gablet.

SW (WHEATFIELD ROAD) ELEVATION: single window at ground floor to recessed bay to outer right. 2 single narrow windows to penultimate bay to right. Canted tripartite window at ground floor; single windows to canted sides; tripartite window at 1st floor; corniced hoodmould over; raised motif to centre. Single window at ground floor; bipartite window at 1st floor to harled section to left; bipartite window forms segmental-headed gablet breaking eaves; single window to right at 1st floor; 2 single windows to single storey section to left. Bipartite window and 2 single windows at ground floor to re-entrant angle; single window to left at 1st floor breaks eaves to form segmental-headed gablet.

NW ELEVATION: 2-bay block to right, irregular fenestration to ground floor, window to left of 1st floor breaking eaves with segmental-headed gablet. Harled gabled bay advanced to left, window to ground floor of right return, with bipartite window breaking eaves with segmental-headed gablet above, window flanking to right.

NE ELEVATION: 2-bay; blank bay to left; canted window through ground and 1st floors terminating in balustraded parapet breaking eaves to flanking bay to right; harled addition with irregular fenestration adjoining to outer right.

Predominantly 4- and 6-pane to upper sashes of timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; stone skews; corniced wallhead and pitch stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

SUNDIAL, GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALL: sundial on circular baluster support to SE of house; metal dial-plate; conical stone gatepiers to entrance to right on Racecoruse Road; 2-leaf timber gate to Racecourse Road elevation, single timber gate to Wheatfield Road elevation; coped sandstone wall encloses site.