St Quivox, Mount Hamilton
Villa (18th Century)
Site Name St Quivox, Mount Hamilton
Classification Villa (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Auchincruive, Mount Hamilton
Canmore ID 200523
Site Number NS32SE 33
NGR NS 37660 24034
NGR Description Centred on NS 37659 24045
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/200523
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Ayr
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS32SE 33.00
Mount Hamilton is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Ayrshire, sheet XXXIII, 1896).
Information from RCAHMS (TIC), November 2001.
2-storey, 3-bay house with late Georgian detailing. Harled with painted polished margins. Base course; strip quoins; eaves course; eaves blocking course; piend-roofed rectangular dormers to attic floor. NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 1790 shallow bowed bay, 3 regularly placed windows to ground and 1st floor, recessed dormer to attic. Predominantly 4-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Stone skews. Coped gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
The broad shallow bowed front of Mount Hamilton, which echoes many of the country houses in Ayrshire, dominates the principal elevation and obscures much of the older house, which was originally the Auchincruive Estate factor's house. (Historic Scotland()
