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Architecture Notes
Event ID 792153
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/792153
AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HOUSE FORMS THE CORE OF THE PRESENT MANSION.
IN VICTORIAN TIMES IT WAS ENLARGED WITH THE ADDITION OF BARONIAL STYLE KEEP (TO ONE END) AND CROW-STEPPED WINGS.
Acquired by the Ayr Division of the Miners' Welfare Fund in the early 1920s and converted into a convalescent home for men injured whilst working in the coal industry. It worked in tandem with a convalescent home for women in Troon.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architect: Allan Stevenson & Cassells. 1922. Adds & alts for Ayrshire District Welfare Committee.
" " " 1923. Alts & adds to gate-lodge.
" " " 1925. Adds to house.
Plans: at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.
