Shandwick, Bentinck Crescent, Troon

Shandwick is a two-storey villa located on Bentinck Crescent in Troon, possibly designed by John Rutherford Johnstone around 1910. The villa features architectural details reminiscent of Charles Voysey, with a symmetrical three-bay front that includes single-storey wings flanking a two-storey gabled entrance. The exterior is finished in painted harl with red sandstone ashlar dressings. It has overhanging timber eaves, a red tile piended roof, boldly buttressed angles, and a columnar entrance. There is also a single-storey garage to the north.

On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there is a part-glazed timber panelled door at the centre, framed by a segmental-arched surround and supported by paired columns that lead to a corniced porch that projects forward. Above the door, a row of four lights is set in a segmental-arched panel at the first floor, with a bullseye window centered in the apex above. The outer left and right bays feature three-light bowed windows at ground level.

The southeast (side) elevation includes a four-light canted window at ground level, offset to the right of centre, and a three-light canted bay in the outer left bay, which has a central door. At the first floor, there is a timber-mullioned tripartite window, offset to the left of centre.

The villa predominantly has four-pane upper and plate glass lower timber sash and case glazing at ground level, while the first floor features ten- and twelve-pane timber casement windows. The steeply pitched, bell-cast red tile piended roof has sandstone coping on the harled ridge stack to the southeast and circular terracotta cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The property is enclosed by a stepped, whitewashed harled boundary wall that surrounds the front. Circular-plan piers flank the pedestrian and vehicular entrances to the north and south, topped with rounded ashlar caps, and there are timber pedestrian entry gates.