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Latitude: 55.4516 / 55°27'5"N
Longitude: -4.6333 / 4°37'59"W
OS Eastings: 233563
OS Northings: 620683
OS Grid: NS335206
Mapcode National: GBR 39.YPS8
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.S7VJ
Plus Code: 9C7QF928+MM
Entry Name: Melling, 57 Midton Road, Ayr
Listing Name: 57 Midton Road, Melling Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 10 January 1980
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357052
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21665
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200357052
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1850. Single and 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical-plan Picturesque villa with single storey section to N. Coursed sandstone. Base course; bargeboarded gables at 1st floor.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: ball-finialled balustraded entrance to right of central arched doorpiece; timber door; arched fanlight; hoodmould; single window aligned above at 1st floor. 4-light window to advanced bay to left; decorative iron balcony over; arched 3-light window at 1st floor; hoodmould over. 3-light window at ground floor to bay to right; single window aligned above at 1st floor. Recessed single storey section to outer right.
NE AND NW ELEVATION: not seen 1999.
SW ELEVATION: gabled, regular fenestration.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; coped ridge stacks; polygonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan gatepiers with inset arched panels to outer left and right; boundary wall encloses site.
Based on Alexander Thomson's Seymour Lodge (1850), Cove, Dunbartonshire, (see separate listing). Of particular note are the bargeboarded gables and the wrought-iron decorative balcony.
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