Ay Ot Lookout, Heritage villa in Charters Towers, Australia.

Ay Ot Lookout is a two-storey timber villa at 63 Hodgkinson Street, designed by William White in the 1890s. Its exposed stud frame is used decoratively beneath a complex gabled roof of corrugated iron. Wide verandahs on both levels have ornate cast iron balustrading, and a square porch rises through the upper storey like a tower. The front door opens into a foyer with a chequerboard black and white Italian marble floor and a turned timber staircase.

Ay Ot Lookout was built in the 1890s for mill manager Thomas Smith, who bought the land in 1895 and took out a £2000 mortgage in 1897. Designed by William White, it was sold in 1904 to merchant Herbert Foxlee, who named it after Ay Ot Farm in Hertfordshire, England. The Foxlee family owned it until 1952.

Herbert Foxlee, a merchant whose shops stood near the house, is thought to have named it after Ay Ot Farm in Hertfordshire, his childhood home in England. The Foxlee family owned the villa until 1952, the longest of any occupants. The cedar joinery, cast-iron balustrading and black-and-white Italian marble floor of the entrance foyer are the workmanship visitors notice.

Ay Ot Lookout stands on the corner of Hodgkinson and High Streets, one block from the Gill Street business centre, so it can be reached on foot from town. It is now used as a club for employees of Mount Leyshon Gold Mines Limited and opened to visitors as a museum.

The black and white checkered marble floor in the entrance foyer has survived unchanged since the villa's construction in the 1890s. This floor is one of the few original elements that remains in its complete form.