Description

Later 19th century, with later additions. Single storey and attic 3-bay house. Painted entrance elevation; rubble to sides. Base course; cornice; blocking course.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central entrance to recessed 2-bays to left; timber door; letterbox fanlight; single window to left; labelmoulds to both; 2-window bowed gable to attic above, curved eaves. Canted window at ground to advanced bay to right; 2 window bowed bay above; crenellated parapet to both.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Square-headed entrance to right; glazed timber door; single window to left at ground; single window at attic (non-aligned).

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Central entrance; timber door; flanking side lights; single windows to outer left and right; 2 bowed dormers at attic.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows at ground floor (modern at ground to W elevation), 12-pane at attic to N elevation, 18-pane at attic to S elevation; Grey slate roof; stone skews; rooflights; corniced gablehead stacks; circular and polygonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped boundary wall enclosing site (painted in part). Vehicular entrances to left and right; square-plan pyramidal-capped gatepiers to left (right lower in height).

Statement of Interest

Nos 1 and 1A, and 2 and 3 Seabank Road are the only remaining houses on Seabank Road. Earlier houses to the W (as marked on Ordnance Survey map, 1961) now demolished. The bowed dormers to both entrance and rear elevations are unusual in Ayr, the more common piend, flat-roofed or catslide dormers found elsewhere.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626393

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas