Lodge, Chapelpark, 16A Ewenfield Road, Ayr

Lodge, Chapelpark, 16A Ewenfield Road, Ayr

This is a 2-storey, 6-bay Arts and Crafts villa with a distinctive 3-stage square tower, designed by Clifford & Lunan and dated 1916. The building is constructed of painted harl with brick dressings, including a base course and brick double-dentilled eaves course. Cornices frame the windows throughout.

The north (entrance) elevation features the prominent 3-stage tower positioned to the penultimate bay on the right. The tower contains a bipartite window and two single windows at its first stage, with tripartite windows at the second and third stages, plus an additional single window to the right at the second stage level. An advanced gabled bay to the outer right contains a tripartite window at the first floor. A segmental-arched piend-roofed timber and brick entrance porch sits to the left of the tower, fitted with a glazed timber door, fanlight, and sidelights. Single linked windows sit at ground and first floor to the right of the porch. To the left of the porch are bipartite windows at ground and first floor. The penultimate bay to the left features bipartite linked leaded windows with squirrel panels dividing the storeys. A single window appears at ground floor to the bay at the outer left, which is topped by a prominent wallhead stack.

The south (rear) elevation is 6 bays wide. At the centre, three pairs of entrance doors open into a lean-to conservatory with a flat-roofed dormer above. A canted, gabled bay to the right contains tripartite windows at ground and first floor, with single windows to its canted sides. To the outer right is a recessed bay with single windows at ground and first floor. To the left stands a canted bay with a tripartite window at ground floor and single windows to its canted sides, topped by a tripartite window at first floor. A glazed opening occupies the penultimate bay to the left. The tower forms a polygonal corner angle at first floor level.

The west (side) elevation comprises 7 bays, grouped 4-2-1, and serves both 16A and 16B. Steps to an entrance sit at the outer left, with a glazed timber door. The penultimate bay to the left has non-aligned single windows at ground and first floor. To the right, a single window at ground floor is paired with a tripartite window at first floor. An advanced, single-storey central section contains single and tripartite windows at ground floor. The tower rises behind with a single window at its second stage and a tripartite window to a canted corner angle at the third stage; an additional single window at first floor sits beside paired wallhead stacks. At the outer right, a tripartite canted window at ground floor has single windows to its canted sides, with a tripartite dormer at first floor above.

The east (side) elevation is 3 bays. A canted entrance porch at the outer right has a glazed timber door with letterbox fanlight, flanked by single windows, and a tripartite window aligned above at first floor. Single windows at first floor flank a wallhead stack in the gabled bay to the left.

The roof is slate with square, paired, and triple brick wallhead stacks topped with circular cans. Windows are predominantly plate glass in 4-, 8-, and 10-pane timber sash and case format, with leaded windows to selected bays. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external finish.

Interior features include elaborate dado panels, decorative bowed panels to a timber gallery, and a keystoned austere fireplace.

The lodge (16A) stands to the north-east of the main house. It is a single-storey, 3-bay structure with a central glazed timber door, a bipartite window to the right, and a tripartite window to a gabled bay at the outer right. Timber windows and a slate roof with paired brick stack and circular cans match the main building's character.

Associated features include a sundial to the south of the main house with a metal plate dated 1705. Central brick square-plan vehicular gatepiers stand at the entrance, with an adjacent pedestrian gatepier and timber gate. An iron gate serves the north-east entrance to the garden. Square-plan gatepiers mark the entrances to 16A and 16B. A coped boundary wall encloses the entire site.