Architecture Notes

Event ID 792153

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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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.