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42
BANK STREET
Properties within the John Finnie Street and Bank Street Outstanding
Conservation Area
43
BANK STREET
56
BANK STREET
58
BANK STREET
Street
60
BANK STREET
1
BANK PLACE
60
BANK STREET
3
BANK PLACE
62
BANK STREET
5
BANK PLACE
64
BANK STREET
7
BANK PLACE
66
BANK STREET
9
BANK PLACE
68
2
BANK STREET
1-3
3-5
BANK STREET
8-10
COLLEGE WYND
4-6
BANK STREET
14
COLLEGE WYND
7
BANK STREET
16
COLLEGE WYND
8
BANK STREET
3
CROFT STREET
9-11
BANK STREET
1
DUNLOP STREET
10
BANK STREET
2
DUNLOP STREET
12
BANK STREET
3
DUNLOP STREET
14
BANK STREET
5
DUNLOP STREET
15
BANK STREET
7
DUNLOP STREET
16-20
BANK STREET
1-3
17
BANK STREET
8-10
COLLEGE WYND
22-24
BANK STREET
14
COLLEGE WYND
25
BANK STREET
16
COLLEGE WYND
26
BANK STREET
1
GRANGE PLACE
28
BANK STREET
3
GRANGE PLACE
30
BANK STREET
5-9
GRANGE PLACE
34
BANK STREET
11
GRANGE PLACE
36
BANK STREET
13
GRANGE PLACE
37
BANK STREET
7-9
GRANGE PLACE
38
BANK STREET
10
GRANGE PLACE
39
BANK STREET
24
GRANGE STREET
40
BANK STREET
26
41
BANK STREET
RAILWAY VIADUCT
Building Number
BANK STREET
CHEAPSIDE STREET
CHEAPSIDE STREET
GRANGE STREET
GREEN STREET
3-7
JOHN DICKIE STREET
68
JOHN FINNIE STREET
9
JOHN DICKIE STREET
70
JOHN FINNIE STREET
19
JOHN DICKIE STREET
71
JOHN FINNIE STREET
23
JOHN DICKIE STREET
72
JOHN FINNIE STREET
CIVIC CENTRE
JOHN DICKIE STREET
73
JOHN FINNIE STREET
4
JOHN FINNIE STREET
74
JOHN FINNIE STREET
3-9
JOHN FINNIE STREET
75
JOHN FINNIE STREET
16-28
JOHN FINNIE STREET
76
JOHN FINNIE STREET
18
JOHN FINNIE STREET
76
JOHN FINNIE STREET
20
JOHN FINNIE STREET
78
JOHN FINNIE STREET
25
JOHN FINNIE STREET
79
JOHN FINNIE STREET
26
JOHN FINNIE STREET
80
JOHN FINNIE STREET
27
JOHN FINNIE STREET
81
JOHN FINNIE STREET
29
JOHN FINNIE STREET
82
JOHN FINNIE STREET
30
JOHN FINNIE STREET
84
JOHN FINNIE STREET
31-33
JOHN FINNIE STREET
85
JOHN FINNIE STREET
32
JOHN FINNIE STREET
87
JOHN FINNIE STREET
34
JOHN FINNIE STREET
89
JOHN FINNIE STREET
36
JOHN FINNIE STREET
91
JOHN FINNIE STREET
37
JOHN FINNIE STREET
93
JOHN FINNIE STREET
38
JOHN FINNIE STREET
95
JOHN FINNIE STREET
39-41
JOHN FINNIE STREET
97
JOHN FINNIE STREET
43-49
JOHN FINNIE STREET
100
JOHN FINNIE STREET
53
JOHN FINNIE STREET
104-106
JOHN FINNIE STREET
55
JOHN FINNIE STREET
108-114
JOHN FINNIE STREET
56
JOHN FINNIE STREET
116
JOHN FINNIE STREET
57
JOHN FINNIE STREET
118
JOHN FINNIE STREET
58
JOHN FINNIE STREET
59
JOHN FINNIE STREET
60
JOHN FINNIE STREET
62
JOHN FINNIE STREET
64
JOHN FINNIE STREET
66
JOHN FINNIE STREET
66
JOHN FINNIE STREET
CENTRAL EVANGELICAL
CHURCH
JOHN FINNIE STREET
4
NELSON STREET
8
NELSON STREET
16
NELSON STREET
18
NELSON STREET
19
NELSON STREET
20
NELSON STREET
21
NELSON STREET
22
NELSON STREET
23
NELSON STREET
24
NELSON STREET
25
NELSON STREET
26
NELSON STREET
28
HOUSEHOLD BANK
NELSON STREET
NELSON STREET
78
PORTLAND STREET
80
PORTLAND STREET
82
PORTLAND STREET
84A
85-88
PORTLAND STREET
PORTLAND STREET
90-92
PORTLAND STREET
94
PORTLAND STREET
96 - 106
PORTLAND STREET
108
PORTLAND STREET
SANDBEG STREET BRIDGE
HIGH CHURCH
PROCURATOR FISCALS
OFFICE
SHERIFF COURT HOUSE
ST. MARNOCKS PARISH
CHURCH
SANDBEG STREET
SOULIS STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
RAILWAY STATION
STATION BRAE
12
STRAND STREET
15
STRAND STREET
17
1
2
3
4
5-7
9
11
13
STRAND STREET
ST. MARNOCK PLACE
ST. MARNOCK PLACE
ST. MARNOCK PLACE
ST. MARNOCK PLACE
ST. MARNOCK PLACE
ST. MARNOCK STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
15
17-19
1-11
GOODFELLOW HOUSE 13-15
16
20
22-24
26
RAILWAY VIADUCT
KILMARNOCK WATER
ST. MARNOCK STREET
ST. MARNOCK STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
WEST GEORGE STREET
GREEN STREET
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EAST AYRSHIRE COUNCIL
STATUTORY LIST
Information Supplementary to the Statutory List
(This information has no legal significance)
HB Number 35897
Item Number: 42 -
3 GRANGE PLACE
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Later 19th century. Single storey 5-bay range; attic extension at right.
Base course; 3 recessed square arched niches to left; string course;
blocking course. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: large round-arched entrance surmounted
by triangular pediment with dentilled soffits; corrugated-iron / timber door;
fanlight divided into 5 lights. Recessed, square-arched entrance porch in
right bay; panelled door; rectangular overlight. 3 blind, square arched
niches to left. Attic extension with single window over right bay.
Plate glazing. Slate roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
1st Edition OS Map, 1856.
Notes:
Originally linked to 51-53 (Odd Nos) John Finnie Street.
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digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 25 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 35956
Item Number: 142 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
78 AND 80
PORTLAND STREET
AND 1 WEST
GEORGE STREET
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Mid 19th century. 3-storey, classical former hotel building on corner site;
7-bays to Portland Street, curved angle bay at SE and 4-bays to West
George Street. Giant Ionic pilasters supporting panelled parapet and
pediment. Modern shop to ground floor; piano nobile above. Polished
yellow sandstone ashlar to principal elevations, coursed rubble to N side.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 5 central bays of ground floor, modern
shop front with door to 2nd right bay, fascia with MASON MURPHY
HOUSE FURNISHERS; bay to left flank, modern shop front with window
and door; to right flanking bay, shop double window. To 1st and 2nd
floors, 5 central bays flanked by giant Ionic pilasters, windows to 1st floor
taller than those at 2nd floor; matching windows to plain outer flanking
bays at both floors Pilasters supporting cornice and panelled parapet,
raised to miniature pediment over central bay, with terminal and apex
fan-headed caps.
SE ELEVATION: slightly recessed arched bay. Paired semi-canted shop
windows to ground floor within modern shop front; cornice above; tall
single window to 1st floor; smaller window to 2nd floor. Low parapet;
round Roman numeral clock surmounting, within raised triangular
pediment with pilastered and scrolled bracket sides.
S ELEVATION: modern shop front to ground floor with large window to
left, narrower window and door to right, fascia above with MASON
MURPHY in large plastic letters. To 1st floor, 4 regularly placed tall
windows, bay to right now blind. To 2nd floor, 4 matching smaller bays
with outer bays now blind. Cornice and low parapet surmounting.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining much higher side elevation of Expo on
West George Street.
N ELEVATION: blind end with the exception of small window off centre
right at 1st floor; adjoining adjacent single storey gable-ended building at
ground floor.
Large plate glass windows to shop front; 3 modern timber doors with
glazed panels irregularly placed to ground floor. Essentially 2-pane sash
and case windows to 1st floor, glazed with smaller panes of opaque
squared quarry to lower sash, similar glazing to upper sash with inset
pattern and coloured glass. To 2nd floor, 2-pane sash and case windows
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with plain glass, smaller sliding upper sash. Piended grey slate roof;
aluminium ridging, flashing and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods
concealed behind parapet, downpipes to angle of arched bay and N
elevation. No stacks seen, although central fan-headed cap to principal
elevation formerly a stack with single tall can, now unused.
INTERIOR: ground and 1st floor now both semi open-plan, modern shop
floors. Upper level not seen, 2001.
References:
1st Edition 6"/mile & 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857). John
Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p 52 showing
the building as George Hotel. Frank Beattie, GREETINGS FROM
KILMARNOCK (1994) p34. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p60.
Notes:
This is one of the few remaining historic buildings in Portland Street after
a comprehensive redevelopment of the town centre took place. The
building, now know as Mason & Murphy's house furnishers, was
originally the "George Hotel". It was built in the mid 19th century and was
regarded as Kilmarnock's "5-star" hotel. Standing on the corner of West
George Street and Portland Street, the hotel was within easy reach of
both the town centre and the newly constructed railway. Many visiting
dignitaries were accommodated here, as were the town's important
public functions. The town council held a special dinner here to confer
the Freedom of Kilmarnock to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia,
who was born in Crosshouse. In 1922, the hotel ceased to be, and part
of it was adapted to house the George Cinema. Part of the building was
further altered to house the retail premises of Alex Lind & Co. At one
stage, the town council bought the property to demolish it, but it was
restored and is now back in use as the retail premises of Mason Murphy,
house furnishers.
© Crown copyright, Historic Scotland. All rights reserved. Mapping information derived from Ordnance Survey
digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 48793
Item Number: 176 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
13 - 15 (ODD
NUMBERS) WEST
GEORGE STREET
Category: B
Group Category:
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
Possibly J & RS Ingram, circa 1875. 3-storey, Beaux-Arts gushet office
building with octagonal tower roof. Coursed polished ashlar. Rusticated
ground floor, pilasters and columns flanking principal windows.
Architraved window and door surrounds. Corniced parapet surmounting
eaves.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-storey, 4-bay, adjoining canted corner
elevation to left. To 4th bay: pilastered surround flanking architraved
arched door, bearded mask keystone with carved floriate spandrels,
ornate scrolled brackets flanking supporting segmental pediment,
window to flanks; giant outer pilasters to full height of building; tripartite
window above door to 1st and 2nd floor, scroll bracketed baloconette
dividing windows. To bays 1-3, rectangular windows with rusticated
pilasters flanking; projecting cornice incorporating upper floor column
plinths and rectangular architraved lintels to 1st floor; scroll bracketed
balconette dividing windows to 1st and 2nd floor. Full length corniced
parapet resting on capitals surmounting.
NW ELEVATION: plainer elevation with 2 regularly placed bays to each
floor.
E ELEVATION: canted 4-sided end: arched windows to bays 1, 2 & 4 of
ground floor, former architraved doorway, now window to 3rd bay:
pilastered surround flanking architraved arched door, bearded mask
keystone with carved floreate spandrels, ornate scrolled brackets
flanking supporting segmental pediment. 4 regularly placed bays to 1st
and 2nd floor, alternate pilaster and column flanking windows; to 1st
floor, scrolls supporting rectangular corniced pediments forming sills of
upper storey windows; corniced parapet resting on capitals. Octagonal
platformed roof with projecting copper cornice surmounting.
2-pane timber sash and case windows, some upper sashes with horns;
to ground floor of S elevation 4-pane timber windows, fixed plate glass
pane to lower light, 3 horizontally placed panes to upper fixed light; 2pane arched windows to ground floor end bays. Timber panelled door to
entrance, arched multi-paned fanlight surmounting. Piended grey slate
roof, partially concealed by parapet; octagonal piended and platformed
roof to arched end bay, projecting copper cornice surmounting. Metal
ridging, flashings and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter
concealed behind parapet, draining into downpipe shared with Expo, the
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building adjacent. Coursed dressed ashlar stack to E gable, projecting
ashlar neck copes and 5 tall octagonal cans; pair of similar smaller
wallhead stacks with single can to N.
INTERIOR: now converted to offices: some cornicing, timber skirting
boards and panelled door, timber dividers still existing.
References:
25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (´0) showing building as a public
house. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989)
p52 showing building in 1900. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) pp76-77 showing building post World War II.
Notes:
This building is a former public house. Originally, there was an entrance
on the more prominent corner elevation where the segmental pediment is
sited. The ornate front elevations faced the major streets and also it is
one of the first building travellers see when alighting the train at the
Railway Station. The main elevation originally had vase style decoration
surmounting the engaged columns and pilasters. No.13 West George
Street became home to the local architectural practice of James Hay
(formerly of 60 Bank Street) after World War I. By 1929, James Hay &
Partners were noted as working from the building and by 1933, Hay &
Steel were the named architects. 1951 saw Hay & Steel still in practise at
No.13, but Gabriel Steel was also listed as working independently from
No.15 West George Street. By 1976, the firm was still in existence at No.
13 - under the name Hay, Steel, Macfarlane & Partners. Nowadays, the
firm has moved to Ayr.
© Crown copyright, Historic Scotland. All rights reserved. Mapping information derived from Ordnance Survey
digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 48740
Item Number: 74 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category: A
2 AND 4 JOHN FINNIE
STREET AND 26
WEST GEORGE
STREET, FORMER
OSSINGTON HOTEL
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
1883. 2-storey with attic and basement, multi-bayed, French
Renaissance style corner block, formerly hotel. Polished red Ballochmyle
ashlar to ground floor of principal elevations, coursed red sandstone
rubble to 1st floor and rear / side elevations. Segmental-arched windows
with keystone to 1st floor. String courses and advanced eaves cornice
with low parapet.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: essentially 11-bay, divided into 3-blocks.
To bays 1-3: 3 regularly placed shop windows to ground floor; to 1st
floor, central stone balcony projecting from cornice with window behind,
advanced pilasters flanking; segmental-arched window with apron panels
to outer bays; central attic dormer with roof light to right. To bays 4-8: 3
former long windows, outer bays now altered to form doors; to 1st floor
paired segmental arched windows to outer bays, similar single window to
centre, 5 matching attic dormers. To bays 9-11: stepped, pilastered door
surround to 9th bay, moulded consoles supporting cornice, triangular
pediment to centre and vased plinths to flanks; giant windows adjoining
each other to 10th and 11th bays. To 1st floor: slightly advanced outer
bays with aedicule style surround windows with channelled pilasters and
triangular pediments breaking eaves, top of door surround engaging
window to left, apron panel below far right window; tripartite window to
centre with apron panel below. To attic, pair of modern dormers to
centre, former tops of lower pediments flanking.
N ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay comprising central door surround with
roll-moulded arrises, large rectangular window to flanks, angles of
ground floor curved with squared corbels leading to 1st floor cornice. To
1st floor, central 3-sided projecting bay window with pilasters to flanks,
triangular pediment with blind shield surmounting; segmental bipartite
window to flanks, eaves cornice with shallow parapet surmounting.
Modern dormers to outer bays of attic.
E ELEVATION: essentially 3 stepped blocks. Canted side return of N
elevation to right: window to ground floor left; to 1st floor, window to left
of each bay; paired attic dormer to left bay. To centre, canted 4-bay
elevation divided 3,1 with 2-storey, extension, partially columned ground
floor: to right bays, single window to basement, tripartite window to
ground floor, single window to 1st floor; to left bays: door to lower ground
floor left in stilted 2-storey, single bay lean-to addition, door to main
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to extension; to 1st floor, 3 regularly placed bays with matching attic
dormers. To left, 3-storey and attic, 2-bay elevation: single windows to
basement tripartite windows to ground and 1st floors; central bipartite
window to attic.
S ELEVATION: former blind end concealed behind remaining inner wall
of 6-12 John Finnie Street (former Operetta House, facade listed
separately).
7 and 14-pane timber sash and case windows to principal elevations,
divided 6 and 12-pane upper sashes with 2-pane or single pane lower
sashes. 2-pane timber sash and case windows, horned upper sashes to
rear of building. 2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to older
attic pavilion, upper sashes with segmental arch heads. Later squared,
bipartite, 3-pane flat-roofed timber dormer windows to centre of roof.
Piended grey slate roof, platformed to parts of later attic level; fish scale
detail to former pavilion roof on right hand of W elevation. Aluminium
ridging, flashing and valleys. Stone tripartite wallhead dormer to right of
W elevation; flat roofed timber dormers with shallow aluminium cheeks to
heightened roof and to rear of property. Painted cast-iron rainwater
goods, gutters concealed within eaves cornice. Coursed red sandstone,
roofline stack aligned with former entrance door, plain yellow can.
Smaller gablehead stack to S elevation, cans now missing; similar stack
to rear of former N pavilion roof.
INTERIOR: ground floor modernised to form estate agents and public
house; alterations circa 1920 to upper accommodation and roof; since
modernised, not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Francis Groome, GAZETTER
(1883) p374. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK
(1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE
SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building. Dean of Guilds Drawings,
Kilmarnock: 1700-1800/1704 ALTERATIONS TO 1st & 2nd FLOOR OF
THE OSSINGTON HOTEL, JOHN FINNIE STREET (1920, Ingram &
Brown). John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989)
p38. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS
AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
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Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This
building was originally the Ossington Temperance Hotel, built in 1883
for ?3500. It was presented to the town by Lady Ossington, lady of the
manor, as a temperance coffee house. It was entered by the grand door
on John Finnie Street, now the entrance to The Gathering public house.
Originally, there were large stone vases ornaments in the squared plinths
still visible at roof level, these have since been removed. Above the
central window of the John Finnie Street elevation of the estate agents is
a balcony. This originally had a free-standing gold lettered sign
proclaiming OSSINGTON with a stone balustrade to the window behind.
Although the balcony remains, a wrought-iron railing now replaces the
balustrade. The triangular pediment above the central 1st floor window
has been removed to allow an extra window in the former pavilion roof,
which was extended by Ingram and Brown in the 1920's. The building is
prominent at the head of John Finnie Street and is one of the first
buildings to be seen when alighting the train.
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enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
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HB Number 48720
Item Number: 34 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
1-3 DUNLOP STREET
AND 12 STRAND
STREET
Category: C(S)
Group Category:
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
Early 19th century. 2-storey L-plan corner site comprising shop flanked
by 2-bay houses. Houses: random rubble, harled and painted; corner
shop: coursed ashlar, harled and painted. All with painted ashlar window
margins.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay house to left, door to
ground right; large double width window to ground floor right with blind
1st floor, fascia for name dividing storeys and continuing around corner.
Single window to arched corner, low parapet with raised centre
surmounting.
E ELEVATION: arched corner (see S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION) leading
to low door with paired windows, single window to outer bay on 1st floor.
N & W (REAR) ELEVATIONS: not seen, 2001.
Mostly 4-pane timber sash and case windows to some ground and all 1st
floor fenestration. Iron window guards barring ground floor windows, with
glazing plan lost to former main windows. Partially glazed door to S,
boarded door to E elevation. Piended grey slate roof with replacement
aluminium ridges and no valleys abutting gables of former buildings. Two
2-pane cast-iron Carron lights to S elevation of roof. Plain painted castiron rainwater goods: gutters tucked under eaves, down-pipes to outer
edge of the building to Strand Street, Dunlop Street elevation sharing
adjacent building's down-pipe. Yellow brick stack to W, partially adjoining
gable of derelict building (to Dunlop Street), 4 mis-matched cans;
lowered stack to N, all cans now missing. 2 large modern ventilation flues
to rear.
INTERIOR: originally 2 small houses flanking a shop accessed through a
door in the SE corner. Fenestration altered in the 20th century to provide
change of usage into a restaurant / bar. Evidence of former thatched roof
in place under slates.
References:
William Crawford, THE LORDSHIP AND BARONY OF KILMARNOCK
(1790, copied 1885, William Newlands, architect) showing buildings on
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HB Number 35966
Item Number: 159 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category: B
15 STRAND STREET,
FORMERLY PART OF
HAYS AND
GOLDBERG'S
WAREHOUSE
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Gabriel Andrew, circa 1896. 3-storey, 3-bay former rectangular-plan
classical office extension for whisky bonds. Red Ballochmyle sandstone
ashlar to front elevation, yellow bricks to side and rear elevations. Giant
order angle pilasters. Architraved and pedimented windows. Eaves
course and cornice.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to ground floor, late 20th century
recessed shop front with paired windows to bays 1 & 2, smaller window
and 2-leaf metal and glazed door to 3rd bay; modern full length fascia
with original red stone fascia and cornice surmounting. To 1st floor, 3
regularly placed architraved bays in-filled to sash height with scroll
bracket pediments surmounting; giant order pilasters to angles and
separating bays. To 2nd floor, sill courses suppporting pilastered window
surrounds; deep eaves course linking main pilasters, projecting cornice
surmounting.
NW ELEVATION: adjoining SE elevation of main warehouse.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.
SE ELEVATION: blind gable.
Replacement glazing to 2nd floor, plate glass lower pane with smaller
opening top hopper. To 1st floor, red sandstone false bottom sashes,
slightly bowed glazed panel to upper pane with vertical glazing bars.
Piended grey slate roof with overhanging eaves, aluminium ridging and
lead flashing. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters concealed by
cornice, replacement downpipe to main elevation. No stacks.
INTERIOR: now a modernised shop interior to ground floor with storage
and former office floors above.
References:
Central Kilmarnock 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY (1896) map showing
15 Strand Street & Hays and Goldberg's Warehouse; John Malkin,
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p55 Strand Street;
Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p69
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for Strand Street.
Notes:
B-Group with former Hays & Goldberg's Warehouse. Originally Strand
Street was the most important thoroughfare in Kilmarnock. It was the first
street to be paved and was a popular residential area for merchants. The
living conditions were not ideal, with the houses being small. The area
was redeveloped in the late 19th century, when the expansion of John
Finnie Street was at its peak. The proliference of 3-storey business
premises continued into Strand Street. Adjacent to this property are the
whisky bonds (Gabriel Andrew, 1897) built for Johnny Walker. Later
known as the Hays & Goldberg warehouse, they too have been
converted into retail premises. These buildings share similarities and
appear to have been built to compliment each other. The overhanging
cornice projects at the same height and distance as the 2nd floor cill
course of the bond. The windows of both 1st floors have blind lower
portions and pilasters separating the bays. It is influenced by James
Ingram's former Operetta House in John Finnie Street.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: B
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
STRAND STREET,
FORMER HAYS AND
GOLDBERG'S
WAREHOUSE (AND
JOHNNIE WALKER
WHISKY BONDS)
Description:
Gabriel Andrew, 1895 - 1897; extended 1898 & 1907. 2 & 3-storey, multibayed, renaissance detail, bonded warehouse on gushet. Yellow brick
with ashlar dressings and rusticated ground floor. Taller, pilastered,
towered pavilions flanking lower sections.
NE (CROFT STREET) ELEVATION: to rusticated ground floor, paired
doors to centre with 8 arched bays to flanks, 1st two bays to left
advanced; continuous cornice above. To 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor: 15 bays
divided 1-6-1-6-1; Single pavilion bays with giant, channelled pilasters, 1
stilted segmental-headed window to 1st floors; flat-headed in 2nd floor;
pilastered and arcaded to former attic bays; triangular pediment
surmounting. Remaining bays: pilastered and arcaded segmentalheaded windows in 1st floor; flat-headed in 2nd floor flanked by paired
pilasters; later 3rd floor matching 2nd floor. Main modillion cornice,
blocking course.
N ELEVATION: 3-storey, 3-bay gushet section linking Strand and Croft
Street elevations: to central bay, tower with giant channelled pilasters
and pilaster strips forming panels, paired arched windows to rusticated
ground floor; blind elevation to 4 upper bays, escutcheon with Kilmarnock
coat of arms to mid level of 2nd and 3rd storey; bell-cast roof with large
flag pole surmounting. To arched flanking bays, rusticated ground floor
with 3 slit windows; to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor, 3 regularly placed small
windows divided by full-height brick pilasters; stone cornice with
balustraded parapet surmounting.
SW AND NW (STRAND STREET) ELEVATION: long curving elevation
divided 1-6-1-6-1-8-1-8-1-8-1-8, mostly 3-storey, but 4-storey to 1st eight
bays and pavilions. Ground floor, arched windows to most but carriage
pend to 2nd pavilion bay with large squared opening to left and door to
restaurant to right; modern shop fronts to 24 south bays. To upper floors,
single pavilion bays with giant, channelled pilasters; 1 stilted segmentalheaded window to 1st floor; flat-headed in 2nd floor; pilastered and
arcaded to former attic bays; triangular pediment surmounting, but
replaced by bell-cast roof to 3rd & 7th pavilion; flag pole to 5th and 7th
pavilion. Remaining bays: pilastered and arcaded segmental-headed
windows in 1st floor; flat-headed in 2nd floor flanked by paired pilasters;
later 3rd floor matching 2nd floor for first 6 bays. Main modillion cornice,
blocking course. To rear, regular blind fenestration with projecting sills.
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SE ELEVATION: adjoining red sandstone ashlar office building of similar
date and design (listed separately).
No windows as such to original design, but high barred openings with
plate glass behind and 2/3 bricked. Iron-barred, glazed windows to
arched bays on N elevation. Modern arched windows to ground floor
restaurant on Strand Street. Modern plate glass shop windows to retail
units to S of Strand Street elevation with some replacement 2-pane
windows to upper storey. Glazed barred windows to gushet. Piended
grey slate roof to all with tall bell-cast roofs to tower bays; aluminium and
lead ridging, flashing and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters
concealed by cornice, downpipes attached to end bays between towers.
No stacks.
INTERIOR: now converted into retail units at Strand Street; modern
interiors but some iron girders supporting structure of building still visible.
References:
Kilmarnock Dean of Guild Plans: EXTENSION TO BONDED
WAREHOUSE, STRAND STREET FOR WALKER & SON (circa 1897);
Plan 485: PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO CROFT STREET PREMISES
FOR MESSRS J WALKER & SONS (1898); Plan 134,
RECONSTRUCTION OF COOPERAGE IN STRAND AND CROFT
STREET FOR J WALKER & SONS (1907). Ministry of Works,
REGISTERS 1902 -1909 & 1909 - 1925. 6"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY
MAP (1896 & ´0) showing buildings. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p101. Rob Close,
SOME KILMARNOCK ARCHITECTS (1999, Kilmarnock & District
History Society's ASPECTS OF LOCAL HISTORY) p55. Frank Beattie,
STREETS AND NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of B-Group with No.15 Strand Street. During the latter stages of the
19th century and the early part of the 20th century, local whisky makers
Johnnie Walker & Sons greatly expanded their operation within
Kilmarnock's town centre. The Croft Street / Strand Street area became
almost entirely devoted to Walker & Sons, housing bonded warehouses,
sheds, engine boilers and stacks, offices, a cooperage and a bottle
washing department. A single storey brick structure opposite (now a
shop) is believed to have been a stable for the horses used by the firm.
As with the other Walker buildings of this era, it was designed by Gabriel
Andrew, a native of Kilmarnock and an important local architect. He also
drew plans for the Co-operative Society but primarily he was retained as
the Walker architect. He moved his practice into Walker's Croft Street
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offices after they were constructed, to his plans. The sandstone detail to
the head of the pend is very like details he later uses in Bank Street
(numbers 37 & 58-60). Andrew designed offices at 37 Bank Street for
Walker & Sons, and moved his practice there from Croft Street. Very little
survives of the former Walker complex within the town centre, the entire
operation having been moved to Hill Street; the former Whisky Bonds
remain (now What Everyone Wants and several restaurants) and the red
sandstone offices adjacent (listed separately) but all the other industrial
buildings, bar the "stable", have been now demolished. A statue of
Johnnie Walker stands opposite the south (What Every One Wants)
elevation, adjacent to the Laigh Kirk, overlooking the once thriving whisky
bond. Upgraded to Category B, 7 October 1987.
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on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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the site. John Wood, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1819).
John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p55.
Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p25
&69.
Notes:
The street was named after James Dunlop, the owner of Langlands
House which stood between Strand Street and Langlands Street. The
building would have been sited in a busy and prominent area of the town,
directly on the rural post road from Stewarton. Strand Street was
primarily the main urban road though Kilmarnock and the first street to be
paved. This particular building was formerly 3 properties. The corner
property was a shop, occupied in the early 20th century by J Hannah, a
grocer. The pediment of the original elevation is still visible at the eaves
level. To the flanks was a small house. The corner site was increasingly
dwarfed from the late 19th century by the surrounding buildings. The
development of John Finnie Street saw many large red sandstone 3storey properties bound the building to the rear. Croft and Strand Street
became home to Gabriel Andrew's monumental warehouse for Johnnie
Walker and to the S of the site a bonded warehouse was constructed by
the same partnership. The construction of a stable building for the
increasing Walker development to the N completed its surroundings.
Many buildings of this corner site's era were replaced, either by grand
town schemes provided by the new money of Victorian industrialists or
by comprehensive redevelopment of the town in the late 20th century. It
is a surprising survivor within the townscape.
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digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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Item Number: 150 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: B
Date of Listing 06-OCT-1978
1 AND 3 ST
MARNOCK PLACE, 9
AND 11 ST
MARNOCK STREET,
FORMER BORLAND'S
SEED WAREHOUSE
Description:
1850, with 1858 extension. 2-storey with attic and basement, 4-bay by
13-bay former seed warehouse with classical details, 11-bay to river with
adjoining single storey boiler house (brick chimney removed, circa 1975).
Painted ashlar with polished ashlar margins. Rubble basement beneath
band course to E (Kilmarnock Water) elevation. Lightly colour washed
stuccoed ashlar to S elevation. Projecting sills to most windows.
Skewputts and scroll finial to N.
S (ST MARNOCK STREET) ELEVATION: later pilastered shop front to
ground floor, 6 irregular width bays with door in 2nd left; chamfered
angles. Double string courses at 1st floor, the upper forming sill course of
4 regularly placed architraved windows; scrolled, moulded detail to outer
of end bays and to centre; curved rusticated quoins terminating in
moulded scroll below prominent eaves cornice.
W (ST MARNOCK PLACE) ELEVATION: 13-bay elevation with pend /
loading bay, originally on N elevation before 1858 extension. Chamfered
jambs and moulded flat arch with keystone to pend. 2 plain doors, now
entrances to pub and cafe. 2' overhanging cornice and blocking course.
N ELEVATION: additional single storey boiler house with pair of windows
set at angle to main elevation; canted brick stump of stack to NW with
large ashlar dressings. To 1st floor of main building, central window;
paired windows to gablehead.
E (KILMARNOCK WATER) ELEVATION: 11 irregularly placed bays to
ground and 1st floors, bracketed cornices to bays 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of
ground floor. Painted advertising fascia dividing full length of upper
storeys.
To St Marnock Street elevation and 1st 2-bays of E elevation, 7-pane
timber sash and case windows, with 6-pane upper sash and plate glass
lower sash; modern plate glass windows to ground floor shop windows.
To E elevation: 24-pane timber windows with 12-panes per sash; some
sash and case windows, some pivoting top mock sash with ventilation
bars to lower casement window; metal framed, multi-paned bipartite
windows to basement. Combination of cast-iron Carron lights and
modern velux roof lights to attic. Shallow piended grey slate roof, gabled
to N. Aluminium ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater
goods.
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Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
ST MARNOCK
STREET,
PROCURATOR
FISCAL'S OFFICE
(FORMER COURT
HOUSE) INCLUDING
BOUNDARY WALLS
AND RAILINGS
Description:
William Railton, 1852; enlargements to rear 1870, ´0 and circa 1985. 2storey, 3-bay, classical court house with portico and single storey wings
on arcaded links; gabled extension to rear with much later addition. Pink
and white sandstone ashlar to main building; coursed rubble to ´0
extension, red and pink ashlar to later addition. Dentilled cornice and
blocking course to main building, plainer cornicing to wings. Principal
pediments with acroteria.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: deep central portico: arched bay to each
elevation with prominent keystone and architraved voussoirs, on
Corinthian piers; cornice surmounting. Adjoining 5 arcaded arched bays
to rear, stylistically identical to those on portico; architraved arched
doorway within central bay with timber panelled door and semi-circular
fanlight; recessed arched windows in bays 2 & 4; later arched window,
replacing door to recessed bays 1 & 5 which act as linking bays to wings.
To 1st floor of main building, 3-bays to centre: window to each bay with
eared architraves, outer bays with cornices; central window flanked by
Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature; decorative roundels in frieze,
dentil cornice and pediment over central bay with acroteria. Single
storey, single bay, projecting gabled wings to flanks: central architraved
window with bracketed cornice; continued eaves course forming
triangular pediment with acroteria.
W ELEVATION: single storey, 3-bay wing to ground floor right:
architraved tripartite window to left bay, gabled central bay with bipartite
window and eaves course forming triangular pediment, smaller window
to left of right bay; tiny window to extreme left of left return. To 1st floor of
main building to rear, 4 elongated windows, similar to left return. Later
building adjoining rear left of wing: paired bipartite windows to each floor,
band and eaves course.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey, ´0 building to left, paired windows to
each floor, projecting gabled end to 3rd bay with irregular bays to left
return and paired windows to each floor on right return. Later 2-storey
building to right with band and eaves course: door to ground floor left, 2
regularly placed windows to each floor; to right return, 2 bipartite
windows to each floor.
E ELEVATION: single storey wing to ground floor with 6 regularly placed
bays, to 1st floor of main building, 4 elongated bays; 7th bay projecting to
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ground floor right with blind architraved window to centre and gable
pediment, tripartite window to left return; 2-storey gabled building, circa
´0, adjoining to right return, bipartite window to 1st floor left. Stepped
rubble wall adjoining to right.
All windows replacement: arched 5 and 7 lying-pane windows with
margin panes to ground floor of main elevation. 2-pane timber sash and
case window with margin panes to 1st floor of principal elevation and
returns. 12 lying-pane timber sash and case windows to wings, 4-pane
upper sashes, 8-pane lower sashes. 12-pane timber sash and case
windows to wing returns. 8-pane timber sash and case windows to rear
extensions with 4-panes to each sash. Piended grey slate roof to main
building and rear extensions; corrugated metal roof with ventilation flues
to wings. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters concealed behind cornice,
downpipes draining to side and rear elevations. Coursed ashlar stacks
now removed.
INTERIOR: now in use as refurbished offices; some interior details
remain, panelled section in former court room, most internal doors and
skirting boards, some cornicing.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low coursed ashlar walls with
matching height squared ashlar piers; painted cast-iron railings with wide
spear tops and matching dog bars.
References:
Dick Institute, KILMARNOCK JOURNAL (undated, circa 1850). 1st
edition 6"/mile & 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF KILMARNOCK
(1857). Archibald McKay, HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1881) p335.
Francis Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND (1883)
p373. John Strawhorn & Ken Andrew, DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE
(1988) p195. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK
(1989) p47. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) pp105-6. Frank Beattie, STREETS &
NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (200) pp64-5 with picture.
Notes:
It was decided in 1846 Kilmarnock should have its own Sheriff substitute
and a new building was erected. It was built on the site of the former
passenger terminus and ticket office of the Kilmarnock and Troon wagonway, opened as early as 1812. A plaque on the building commemorates
this. Immediately to the east of the building was Kilmarnock House, for
many years the town residence of the Boyds after the fire at Dean
Castle. The house then became a school until 1935 when it was
demolished. Originally, this building was called the "Court House" of
Kilmarnock. Local architect William Railton, who was also responsible for
the now demolished Kilmarnock Infirmary and the planned layout of John
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Finnie Street, designed it. The Court House opened in 1852 and the first
court was on 5th May, presided over by Sheriff Thomas Anderson, Esq.
The Sheriff was in charge of matters in not only Kilmarnock but in
"Ardrossan, Beith, Craigie, Dalry, Dreghorn, Dunlop, Fenwick, Galston,
Kilburnie, West Kilbride, Kilmaurs, Largs, Loudon, Mauchline, Riccarton,
Stevenson and Stewarton". It contained purpose built jail and police cells
to the rear and an 1870 addition. The cells were demolished, as was a
modern building on the Kilmarnock House site; this is now a car park.
The courthouse ceased to function when a new purpose-built building
was constructed opposite on the junction of St Marnock Street and
Dundonald Road in 1985. It was designed by the PSA and it balances
the S elevation of the street, which has the 1975 police station (built to
replace the one on the Flesh Market Bridge) to the left and St Marnock's
Church to the centre. The old Court House was then converted into the
Procurator Fiscal's Office by the PSA and Hay Steel and Partners. Some
alterations did occur in the 20th century, the windows to the 1st floor
returns of the main building were formerly small and square and the long
windows in the arcade were formerly doors. The west wing's central
gabled window projected further than it does today and the columned
central pediment on the main elevation was for a time flush with the rest
of the upper elevation, although now it is returned to its original plan. The
building is still in administrative use today.
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Item Number: 150 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: B
Date of Listing 06-OCT-1978
1 AND 3 ST
MARNOCK PLACE, 9
AND 11 ST
MARNOCK STREET,
FORMER BORLAND'S
SEED WAREHOUSE
Description:
1850, with 1858 extension. 2-storey with attic and basement, 4-bay by
13-bay former seed warehouse with classical details, 11-bay to river with
adjoining single storey boiler house (brick chimney removed, circa 1975).
Painted ashlar with polished ashlar margins. Rubble basement beneath
band course to E (Kilmarnock Water) elevation. Lightly colour washed
stuccoed ashlar to S elevation. Projecting sills to most windows.
Skewputts and scroll finial to N.
S (ST MARNOCK STREET) ELEVATION: later pilastered shop front to
ground floor, 6 irregular width bays with door in 2nd left; chamfered
angles. Double string courses at 1st floor, the upper forming sill course of
4 regularly placed architraved windows; scrolled, moulded detail to outer
of end bays and to centre; curved rusticated quoins terminating in
moulded scroll below prominent eaves cornice.
W (ST MARNOCK PLACE) ELEVATION: 13-bay elevation with pend /
loading bay, originally on N elevation before 1858 extension. Chamfered
jambs and moulded flat arch with keystone to pend. 2 plain doors, now
entrances to pub and cafe. 2' overhanging cornice and blocking course.
N ELEVATION: additional single storey boiler house with pair of windows
set at angle to main elevation; canted brick stump of stack to NW with
large ashlar dressings. To 1st floor of main building, central window;
paired windows to gablehead.
E (KILMARNOCK WATER) ELEVATION: 11 irregularly placed bays to
ground and 1st floors, bracketed cornices to bays 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of
ground floor. Painted advertising fascia dividing full length of upper
storeys.
To St Marnock Street elevation and 1st 2-bays of E elevation, 7-pane
timber sash and case windows, with 6-pane upper sash and plate glass
lower sash; modern plate glass windows to ground floor shop windows.
To E elevation: 24-pane timber windows with 12-panes per sash; some
sash and case windows, some pivoting top mock sash with ventilation
bars to lower casement window; metal framed, multi-paned bipartite
windows to basement. Combination of cast-iron Carron lights and
modern velux roof lights to attic. Shallow piended grey slate roof, gabled
to N. Aluminium ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater
goods.
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INTERIOR: original elements remaining, but refurbished to provide
restaurant and accommodation. Cast-iron stanchions bearing timber
beams, some single span across about 42' width of building. Stone steps
to basement. Slightly curved rectangular stairs to former office end. Main
storage area now subdivided to form Copperfield's Inn and the Artful
Dodger pub and restaurant.
References:
Peter Sturrock, THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK BELONGING TO HIS
GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND (1849) showing previous small
buildings. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857) showing unextended warehouse. 3rd STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, AYRSHIRE (1951)
p434. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN, AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p106. Frank Beattie, STREETS &
NEUKS - OLD KIMARNOCK (2000) pp64-65.
Notes:
Part of B-Group with 3, 5 & 7 St Marnock Street & 113 - 119 King Street.
One of the shops to the St Marnock Street elevation was used for retail
by part of the firm's family. Rankin and Borland, a firm of manufacturing
chemists, were established in 1798. They were well known for making
mineral waters. Interestingly, the Ha's Well was sited near here and it
was said to produce the best water for whisky. The main family was
Borland and the firm was known as James Borland & Sons Ltd, Seed
Stores. The Borland firm had been incorporated with Dickie Fowlds & Co
Ltd, Established 1750. The building remained in use as a "seed
warehouse" until nearly the end of the 20th century. The interior
remained almost complete with an earlier 19th century rea (seed sifter),
on the ground floor, with semi-circular movement and 2 sieves of
different mesh proportions. Associated with this was a fanner, and both
pieces of machinery were in regular use until the firm closed down. There
was also a rea in the basement with a back and forward movement. 2 hot
air grain driers were sited on the 1st floor. All the machines were water
powered, hence the proximity to the river, but all that survived of the
mechanism was a tank in the basement. The building has now been
refurbished to form an inn, pub and restaurant with subdivision of the
formerly open floor plans. Part of the original name can still be seen
painted onto the left of the E elevation, behind the newer fascia.
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the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
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authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
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HB Number 48779
Item Number: 149 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
5 - 7 (ODD NUMBERS)
ST MARNOCK PLACE
Category: C(S)
Group Category:
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
Circa 1895. 2-storey, 3-bay by 6-bay, office / warehouse with attic and
basement. Red Ballochmyle polished ashlar front and rear facade, band
and eaves courses, long and short quoins. Bull-faced ashlar to 1st floor
of principal elevation. Weathered red bull-faced ashlar basement
adjoining riverbank. Yellow brick sides.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central timber panelled door with single
pane rectangular fanlight, flanking brackets supporting segmental
pediment; tripartite window to flanks of door, projecting drip sill, moulded
upper arrises and flush lintel; outer brackets on band course. To 1st floor,
3 regularly placed architraved windows, conjoined segmental hoodmould
above each, recessed panel above window; projecting eaves cornice.
Central stone dormer to attic: pilastered, architraved surround supporting
triangular pediment.
W ELEVATION: to ground floor: later door to 1st bay, rectangular stone
silled window with fabric awnings to bays 2 and 3, flanking advertising
board, 4th bay former vehicle entrance now in-filled with arch awning
above entrance door, smaller timber door to right; rectangular window
with stone sill to 5th bay with much smaller window adjacent to right,
blind to 6th bay. To 1st floor: rectangular window, stone sills and lintels
and lintel course, recessed blind brick arches above; eaves course.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.
E ELEVATION: slightly projecting, rusticated basement with 6 regularly
placed bays. To ground floor: blind to 1st bay, bipartite window with
stone sill and mullion to 2nd bay, 4 regularly placed rectangular windows
with projecting stone sills to bays 3 - 6, fabric awnings to 3 bays to right.
To 1st floor: rectangular window, stone sills and lintels and lintel course,
recessed blind brick arches above; eaves course.
10-pane lying-pane timber sash and case windows to 1st floor of E
elevation & W elevation; to S elevation and ground floor left of E, 2-pane
timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes. Replacement
2-pane PVCu windows to basement of E elevation. Piended grey slate
roof, with metal ridging and flashing. Piended grey slate roof to stone
attic dormer, slated cheeks, Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter
concealed by eaves cornice, downpipes to side elevations. Inverted Tplan brick wallhead stack to left of E gable with red sandstone dressings
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in 90 degree angles; projecting ashlar neck cope, 4 plain cans;
gablehead stack to N elevation, projecting ashlar neck cope with 5 plain
cans.
INTERIOR: office accommodation to front portion of building; pub /
restaurant to rear.
References:
Kilmarnock 6""mile & 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896)
showing the building with adjacent structures. KILMARNOCK
DIRECTORY (1898 - 1901 & 1933 - 1936). Frank Beattie, STREETS
AND NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p14.
Notes:
This former warehouse is found adjacent to the Timmer Bridge - a
footbridge joining the Bridge Lane / King Street area with St Marnock
Place / Nelson Street area over the Kilmarnock Water. It is similar in style
to most of the late 19th century commercial buildings in Kilmarnock with
yellow brick sides and a formal dressed red ashlar frontage with good
architectural details. The building was home to J & S Templeton, cheese
and seed merchants during the 1930's. These warehouses were near to
the river for ease of moving and delivering stock as well as utilising water
in grinding processes. The formal offices were used to meet clients and
buyers, whilst more informal work was carried out in the rest of the
building. Stock was transferred through a large opening in the W
elevation. Like the Borland Seed Warehouse, this building is now in
commercial use with offices to the front and a club to the rear and side.
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enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
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Item Number: 151 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category: B
3, 5 AND 7 ST
MARNOCK STREET
AND 113 - 119 (ODD
NUMBERS) KING
STREET
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Mid 19th century. 3-storey, 6-bay by 6-bay, classical corner retail and
commercial building. Painted, stugged ashlar and polished dressings.
Giant angle pilasters. Raised window architraves and margins, some with
entablatures. Cornice and blocking course.
S (ST MARNOCK STREET) ELEVATION: to 1st bay, extending to
beginning of 2nd bay: modern shop front with central door and window to
flanks. From 2nd to 4th bays: pilastered door surround off centre left,
small high square window to left flank; matching paired windows to right
flank. To 5th & 6th bays: large shop window with internal paired support
columns, shop fascia above. Band course forming sills of 6 regularly
placed 1st floor windows with entablatures. To 2nd floor, matching
architraved windows. Cornice and blocking course meeting angle
pilasters.
E (KING STREET) ELEVATION: to 1st & 2nd bays: recessed central
door with shop window to flanks. End of 2nd bay to beginning of 4th bay:
boarded shop front. To bays 4 to 6: door with security grilled shop
window to flanks. Modern fascias surmounting all shop fronts. Band
course forming sills of 6 regularly placed 1st floor windows with
entablatures. To 2nd floor, matching architraved windows. Cornice and
blocking course meeting angle pilasters.
N ELEVATION: adjoining building of similar height and design in King
Street, shared stack.
W (SANDBED STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bays, pebble-dashed giant end
pilaster to left.
Replacement windows to upper floors: 3-pane at 1st floor, single upper
pane, 2 vertical panes to lower sash; to 2nd floor, single windows divided
almost equally into 4-panes. Modern plate glass windows to ground floor
shops. Piended grey slate roof to all, aluminium ridging, flashing and
valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, downpipes with decorative
hoppers to centres of principal elevations.
INTERIOR: ground floor now modern fitted shops; upper floors used for
storage and offices, most refurbished.
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References:
Extract from Peter Sturrock, THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK
BELONGING TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND (1849)
showing building. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857)
showing building. Frank Beattie, STREETS & NEUKS - OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) pp64-65.
Notes:
B-Group with the former Borland Seed Warehouse. The site of this
building is prominent within the townscape. The W elevation of this
property is sited on Sandbed Street, the former main thoroughfare of the
town and overlooks the Kilmarnock Water towards the former site of
Kilmarnock House and St Marnock Place The block site of this building
had been in use from around 1832, although the building we now see is
slightly later than this. The 1849 map shows a building standing in this
position. The ground floor has always been for retail and commercial
use, and the Sandbed Street part of the building was for a long time a
public house. The principal elevations form the only surviving angle block
between St Marnock Street and King Street. Originally opposite was the
King Street U.P Church but this has been demolished and replaced by
some late 20th century shops and offices.
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HB Number 35961
Item Number: 154 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category:
ST MARNOCK
STREET, ST
MARNOCK'S PARISH
CHURCH (CHURCH
OF SCOTLAND)
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
James Ingram, 1836. Rectangular plan, Perpendicular Gothic, 6-bay
church with centrally placed 4-stage tower to N gable. Pink sandstone
with base and string course. Angle, diagonal and octagonal clasping
buttresses.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central 2-leaf, gothic panelled door to
ground, recessed under pointed arch with moulded reveals and
crocketed, ogival hood-mould. Tower breaking gablehead: tall window
with reticulated tracery set under square-panelled head; clock in lozenge
panel above; louvered opening with panel tracery and ogival hood-mould
in upper stage; battlemented parapet with square angle pinnacles.
Battlemented gable flanking tower with tall, panel-traceried windows
below; octagonal, blind panelled, terminal buttresses with crocketed and
finialled caps.
E ELEVATION: 5 similarly traceried windows; timber gothic door to bay 6
with hood-mould and blind lancets above.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 geometric traceried windows with central
window tallest; gablehead finial removed, diagonally placed angle
buttress & finials remain; later single storey addition present.
W ELEVATION: 5 similarly traceried windows; timber gothic door to bay
1 with hood-mould and blind lancets above.
Stained glass of square quarry to most windows. Piended grey slate roof
with lead flashings. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: gothic revival interior with original lectern & organ.
References:
Peter Sturrock, THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK BELONGING TO HIS
GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND (1849) showing the church opposite
Kilmarnock House; A Fullarton, TOPOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL &
HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, VOL.II (1851) p124;
Francis Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, VOL. IV
(1883) p375; George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POSTREFORMATION CHURCHES, 1560 - 1843 (1957) p141 & 188; J
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Strawhorn & K Andrew, DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE (1988) p195; John
Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p17; Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p105;
Frank Beattie, STREETS & NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) pp64-5.
Notes:
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The architect was local man
James Ingram, who planned many buildings within Kilmarnock during the
mid-late 19th century. This was his first major piece of work. He was later
in practise with his son Robert Samson Ingram at 114 King Street. The
church dates from 1836 and cost ?5000 including the tower. It was built
primarily as a chapel of ease and contained 1736 sittings. The
Commissioner's Report said "It is intended to apply to the presbytery to
assign a parochial district to it, when an endowment is got for a minister."
It was finally constituted a quoad sacra church in 1862. Internally, the
organ cost ?350 and was a gift from John Gilmour, Esq. of Elmbank
House (which was later demolished to provide land for the Dick Institute).
Not long after the church opened, rumours began to circulate with regard
to the safety of the structure. The building is wide and it was assumed
the roof was too heavy and wide to be supported properly. Repair and
strengthening work was carried out to the centre, which fuelled rumours
of an imminent structural collapse. One Sunday during a service
conducted by Rev. David Strong, a gale sent a tree crashing into a
sidewall of the church and the main doors burst open with the storm. The
congregation panicked, especially as someone imagined they saw
smoke in the session house and, like the Laigh Kirk 35 years previously,
a stampede occurred. Multiple deaths were averted due to Rev. Strong's
pulpit address urging calm. No injuries were reported (unlike the Laigh
Kirk where 30 people died) and the structure still survives a century and
a half later.
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character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
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the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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INTERIOR: original elements remaining, but refurbished to provide
restaurant and accommodation. Cast-iron stanchions bearing timber
beams, some single span across about 42' width of building. Stone steps
to basement. Slightly curved rectangular stairs to former office end. Main
storage area now subdivided to form Copperfield's Inn and the Artful
Dodger pub and restaurant.
References:
Peter Sturrock, THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK BELONGING TO HIS
GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND (1849) showing previous small
buildings. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857) showing unextended warehouse. 3rd STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, AYRSHIRE (1951)
p434. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN, AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p106. Frank Beattie, STREETS &
NEUKS - OLD KIMARNOCK (2000) pp64-65.
Notes:
Part of B-Group with 3, 5 & 7 St Marnock Street & 113 - 119 King Street.
One of the shops to the St Marnock Street elevation was used for retail
by part of the firm's family. Rankin and Borland, a firm of manufacturing
chemists, were established in 1798. They were well known for making
mineral waters. Interestingly, the Ha's Well was sited near here and it
was said to produce the best water for whisky. The main family was
Borland and the firm was known as James Borland & Sons Ltd, Seed
Stores. The Borland firm had been incorporated with Dickie Fowlds & Co
Ltd, Established 1750. The building remained in use as a "seed
warehouse" until nearly the end of the 20th century. The interior
remained almost complete with an earlier 19th century rea (seed sifter),
on the ground floor, with semi-circular movement and 2 sieves of
different mesh proportions. Associated with this was a fanner, and both
pieces of machinery were in regular use until the firm closed down. There
was also a rea in the basement with a back and forward movement. 2 hot
air grain driers were sited on the 1st floor. All the machines were water
powered, hence the proximity to the river, but all that survived of the
mechanism was a tank in the basement. The building has now been
refurbished to form an inn, pub and restaurant with subdivision of the
formerly open floor plans. Part of the original name can still be seen
painted onto the left of the E elevation, behind the newer fascia.
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Item Number: 141 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
1 - 9 (ODD NUMBERS)
PORTLAND STREET,
FORMER ROYAL
BANK OF SCOTLAND
Group Category:
Date of Listing 15-MAY-1987
Description:
W J Walker Todd for Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson of Edinburgh,
Architects, 1937 - 1939; opened June 1939. 2-storey, classical moderne
bank building; 5-bay domed rotunda to centre with angled elevations
flanking. Polished Heworth Burn ashlar, channelled at ground, on black
granite plinth. Base, band and eaves course.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 5-bay rotunda: tall arched
windows with ashlar voussoirs and massive consoled keystones to outer
and central bays of ground floor; narrow window to bays 2 & 4 with
stylised swag and tail sculpture above keystone; band course; 5
rectangular windows to 1st floor. Architraved frieze carved with ROYAL
BANK OF SCOTLAND; cornice with heavy banded base of main dome
above.
SW ELEVATION: projecting 2-storey, 2-bay, adjoining rotunda to rear.
Advanced bay to left, architraved doorway with sculpted frieze portraying
three coins flanked by saltires, dentilled cornice surmounting; 2-leaf
timber panelled door with brass handle, letterbox and roundel
decorations. Rectangular plaque inset into band course, inscribed
ROYAL BANK. Central window with lintel course to 1st floor. Architraved
cornice, parapet with raised rectangular central pediment. To right bay,
tall narrow window to ground floor with stylised swag and tail sculpture
above keystone; band course; square window to 1st floor. Architraved
eaves course leading to banded base of main dome to rear. Blind return
to right.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining much later 2-storey buildings.
SE ELEVATION: projecting 2-storey, 2-bay, adjoining rotunda to rear.
Advanced bay to right: tall arched bay with rusticated voussoirs; band
course; central window with lintel course to 1st floor. Architraved cornice,
parapet with raised rectangular central pediment. To left bay, tall narrow
window to ground floor with stylised swag and tail sculpture above
keystone; band course; square window to 1st floor. Architraved eaves
course leading to banded base of main dome to rear. Blind return to left.
Further 2 similar bays to right forming now separate shop.
9 & 12-pane painted metal windows with metal glazing bars to 1st floor
with 3-pane opening top hoppers. Metal windows to ground floor with 2
main panes and margin lights. 3 large arched metal windows to bow of
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HB Number 35951
Item Number: 144 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
PORTLAND STREET
AND SOULIS
STREET, VIADUCT
Category: B
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
1848. 23-arch, railway viaduct. Coursed squared rubble with polished
ashlar dressings and parapet.
S & N ELEVATIONS: 23 segmental arches rise from piers with moulded
impost courses. Wider span to Portland Street with raised rusticated
flanking piers and polished quoins. Arches to W of Portland Street of
diminishing span and with shallow pointed heads. To E (near the weir):
pair of piers on heavy rusticated cutwaters sited in the Kilmarnock Water,
piers immediately flanking inset into river bank. Manmade soil
embankment to E (parallel with Kay Park and London Road): arched,
coursed sandstone ashlar wall around base with sloped buttresses
supporting, squared copes surmounting all.
References:
Peter Sturrock, Extract from "THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK
BELONGING TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND" (1849)
showing the viaduct. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857)
showing Glasgow and South Western Railway viaduct. J Hume, THE
INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND (1976) Vol. I p60. Gordon
Biddle & O S Nock, THE RAILWAY HERITAGE OF BRITAIN (1983)
p135. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p8,
111, 115 & 125.
Notes:
Built to carry the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. The
railway first came to Kilmarnock in 1837 when the Kilmarnock & Ayr
Railway Company was formed, followed by the Glasgow & Dalry Railway
Company, six years later. The number of goods and passengers carried
rose quickly, as its popularity continued on from that of the Duke of
Portland's wagon way. In 1847, the Kilmarnock to Troon wagon-way was
bought from the Duke and converted for the use of passenger steam
trains. Within the next 3 years, more lines were opened up with stops at
Galston and Newmilns. This magnificent railway viaduct was constructed
from the station, across Portland and Soulis Streets and spanning the
Kilmarnock Water to join land at the bottom of what became Kay Park. At
the time, it towered over the older, smaller properties surrounding. 1850
saw the completion of the Glasgow and South Western's Nithsdale line.
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The cross border track ran between Carlisle and Glasgow and stopped at
Kilmarnock. The old station house was replaced by the one we see today
(listed separately), built to cope with the extra passenger numbers and
freight. The viaduct is still in use, carrying the main line south from
Glasgow to Dumfries. It continues to dominate the streetscape to the
north of the town centre.
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Item Number: 156 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
SANDBED STREET,
SANDBED BRIDGE
Category: C(S)
Group Category:
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
1762; later addition and repairs. Single span, segmental-arched bridge
Coursed sandstone ashlar of varying colours, inset ashlar voussoirs;
coursed tooled and droved rubble parapet.
NE AND SW ELEVATIONS: abutments concealed by later coursed
rubble and brick retaining walls of buildings adjoining riverside; single
segmental arch with slightly recessed ashlar voussoirs breaking into
parapet, coursed ashlar and rubble spandrels; drip mould leading to
slightly recessed rubble parapet, flush rectangular copes surmounting.
NW & SE ELEVATIONS: fairly narrow tarmac road with parapet sides
joining Sandbed Street to the junction of Strand and Bank Streets.
References:
Timothy Pont, CUNNINGHAM TOPOGRAPHIZED (1609) for notes on
Kilmernock (Kilmarnock). Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF
KILMARNOCK (1783). William Crawford, EXTRACT FROM THE
LORDSHIP AND BARONY OF KILMARNOCK (circa 1790) copied by
William Newlands (1885). John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
KILMARNOCK (1989) p91. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) pp65-66.
Notes:
Sometimes referred to as the "Old Bridge" or "Town Bridge", Sandbed is
the oldest bridge in Kilmarnock. It stands over the Kilmarnock Water and
links Cheapside and Bank Street with the Sandbed (Street). When
Timothy Pont visited Kilmarnock in 1612, he described its predecessor
as "a faire stone bridge" but by 1658 Richard Franck thought it to be
"wretchedly ancient". A new bridge followed and was repaired in 1753
after a devastating flood. This "new" bridge was constructed and it
carried the main Glasgow Road through the town before King Street was
opened up. It was also the venue for the town's market until the Flesh
Market Bridge (on the site of the present Burn's Mall) was constructed in
1770. An enclosed bridge can be viewed to the NE, this carries King
Street to The Cross and has a row of shops (formerly Victoria Place) on
it. A sculpture of a swimmer and fish can be seen on the pavement of
King Street marking the spot where the Kilmarnock Water passes
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Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
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be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35965
Item Number: 158 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: A
Group Category:
Date of Listing 09-MAR-1971
Description:
Robert and William Hunter from James Gibbs pattern book, 1732 -1740.
Session house, Thomas Fulton, 1858; with 1909 and 1929 additions,
John H Railton; interior remodelled, 1868. 5-bay by 3-bay, rectangularplan classical church; tower and entrance to E end; T-plan session house
to W. Coursed local sandstone from Townhead and Dean quarries.
Dressed ashlar eaves cornice, door and window surrounds. Lead capped
skew gables.
SOULIS STREET,
HIGH CHURCH
(CHURCH OF
SCOTLAND),
INCLUDING
CHURCHYARD,
WALLS, GATEPIERS
AND SOULIS
MONUMENT
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: simple round-arched door to centre;
rectangular doorways to flanking bays; every outer quoin rusticated with
moulded lintel, prominent keystone and sloped cornice. To 1st floor,
round-arched windows to outer bays, treatment similar to ground floor
doors. Continued eaves course forming implied pediment; blind squared
bay to centre of gable showing original position of clock. Tower rising
from gablehead: square base with string course; clock to each face;
octagonal upper stage with round-arched belfry openings; tall domed,
leaded roof with diminutive lead cupola and weather-vane surmounting.
S ELEVATION: 5 segmental-headed windows to ground floor; 5
matching round-arched windows to 1st floor; ventilation bricks under sills
of some windows. Later security grilles to all windows.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: later single storey, T-plan gabled session house
with angle margins adjoining main building to centre: bipartite window to
end of main section; blind window to each gabled arm. Later single
storey, single bay gabled extensions in re-entrant angles of main
building: window in left extension, door to left return; pilastered door to
extreme left of right extension, window to right return. Main building rising
to rear: Venetian window with internal treatments to centre of 1st floor,
slightly lower blind arched windows to outer bays; rose-pattern ventilator
to gablehead; finial surmounting.
N ELEVATION: 5 segmental-headed windows to ground floor; 5
matching round-arched windows to 1st floor; ventilation bricks under sills
of some windows. Later security grilles to all windows.
Stained glass (see NOTES). Piended grey slate roof; zinc ridging and
flashing. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods; shaped hoppers draining to
down pipes on side elevations.
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INTERIOR: main church: nearly square with galleries on 3 sides.
Ornamented plaster ceiling, mostly acanthus pattern borders; 3 later
ceiling roses, central one for former chandelier, flanking roses lead to
roof ventilators. Two rows of massive Etruscan columns, with
idiosyncratic acanthus decoration to squared capitals, supporting roof
and panelled galleries of oak. Attached columns divide the lights of the
Venetian west window; panelled, boxed entrance below with doors to
each return; directly to centre, semi-circular oak raised pulpit on squared
base with gothic panels. Later altar directly in front of pulpit. Timber pews
with scrolled ends to sides and every 3rd pew in central block a folding
pew. 1868 timber organ with guilded pipes in E gallery. E entrance hall
and stairs to galleries: inset marble memorial to Rev. James Aitken to
centre; stone dogleg stairs to N & S with timber newel posts, balusters
and planked treads. Bell within tower: original bell (1762), present bell
(1853) by G & A Mears, London inscribed "GOD SAVE OUR CHURCH
AND STATE"; clock also housed here, not working at present. Series of
21 stained glass windows in timber frames (see NOTES) by W and JJ
Kier; formerly zinc with diamond quarry.
CHURCHYARD, WALLS & GATEPIERS: coursed and random rubble
walls to E, S & W; partially lined with red ashlar behind inset memorials;
mixture of plain and segmental coping. Pair of alternate red and white
rusticated ashlar piers to centre of E elevation, moulded copes with ball
and stalk finial, left finial now missing. To centre of W elevation, pair of
squared red ashlar gatepiers with rusticated bands, moulded copes with
ball and stalk finials. Interesting 18th & 19th century ashlar gravestones
(see NOTES) including plainer headstones, plinthed obelisks, ornate
marble head stones inset into wall and gothic tombs. Cobbled entrance
path to E, under black tarmac to N, S & W paths.
SOULIS MONUMENT (IN SE BOUNDARY WALL): ashlar Doric column
with urn surmounting, set in a pilastered and round arched niche,
inscribed TO THE MEMORY OF LORD SOULIS 1444. REBUILT BY
SUBSCRIPTION 1825. THE DAYS OF OLD TO MIND I CALL.
References:
SASINE document (27th October, 1737). Charles Reid, 1:10,000 PLAN
OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1783) showing church. William
Crawford, THE LORDSHIP AND BARONY OF KILMARNOCK (1790,
copied circa 1885 William Newlands, architect). Groome's GAZETTEER
(1883) Vol. IV p374. Dean of Guild, case 1300 -1400, plan 1399, HIGH
CHURCH, PROPOSED LAUNDRY (1909, John H. Railton, architect, 1
St Marnock Place). John H. Railton, THE HISTORY OF THE OLD HIGH
KIRK: THE ORIGIN AND BUILDING OF THE CHAPEL OF EASE, ITS
MANAGEMENT AND ITS MINISTERS, 1739 - 1939 (1940). John
Strawhorn & Ken Andrew, DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE (1988) p193.
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John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p12, 111
& 125. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p108. Frank Beattie, GREETINGS
FROM KILMARNOCK (1994) pp25 - 26. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND
NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p67.
Notes:
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church was built as a chapel
of ease, for the Laigh Kirk, by private subscription on a site gifted by the
Earl of Kilmarnock. The chapel, as it was called, cost ?850 exclusive of
the 80ft steeple that was added later. The Earl of Kilmarnock and John
Orr of Grougar and Barrowfield donated most of the money with the rest
being raised from the sale of pews. Although the stone was local, many
of the materials used came from further afield, the timber from Irvine and
the slates from Saltcoats. The lead covering for the 1740 tower was cast
on site. The original clock (by Allan Foulds) only had 2 faces; one in the
gable facing east (now in-filled) and the other facing the pulpit. It was
removed when the organ (which cost ?300) was added in 1868. The
present arrangement of sheet copper dials was introduced in 1797 and
renewed in 1822. The galleries were originally accessed by exterior
stairs, but were replaced by internal flights when the organ was added.
The church was elevated into a separate parish in 1811 following a Deed
of Erection and the first real minister was Mr Hamilton. Part of the
congregation broke away during the Disruption of 1843 and set up the
West High Kirk, still in existence and located in Portland Street. The
churchyard contains the graves of Thomas Morton (telescope maker and
inventor); Thomas Kennedy (water meter manufacturer); John Wilson
(printer of 1st edition of Robert Burn's poems); and the Tannock Brothers
(artists from Grange Street). Built into the exterior of the east wall of the
kirkyard is a fluted column and tablet monument to Lord Soulis, an
English nobleman said to have died in the 14th or 15th centuries. This
was built after a public subscription was held to replace an earlier
monument at The Cross. The session house adjoining the church to the
west was built to replace a free standing one demolished to make space
within the churchyard. The windows of the church are rare as they are a
complete set all by the one firm, W & JJ Kier, the Irvine born Glasgow
artists. The first window was commissioned in 1869 as a memorial to the
4th Earl of Kilmarnock, William Boyd, then the rest were added by the
congregation at various times.
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be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35956
Item Number: 142 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
78 AND 80
PORTLAND STREET
AND 1 WEST
GEORGE STREET
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Mid 19th century. 3-storey, classical former hotel building on corner site;
7-bays to Portland Street, curved angle bay at SE and 4-bays to West
George Street. Giant Ionic pilasters supporting panelled parapet and
pediment. Modern shop to ground floor; piano nobile above. Polished
yellow sandstone ashlar to principal elevations, coursed rubble to N side.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to 5 central bays of ground floor, modern
shop front with door to 2nd right bay, fascia with MASON MURPHY
HOUSE FURNISHERS; bay to left flank, modern shop front with window
and door; to right flanking bay, shop double window. To 1st and 2nd
floors, 5 central bays flanked by giant Ionic pilasters, windows to 1st floor
taller than those at 2nd floor; matching windows to plain outer flanking
bays at both floors Pilasters supporting cornice and panelled parapet,
raised to miniature pediment over central bay, with terminal and apex
fan-headed caps.
SE ELEVATION: slightly recessed arched bay. Paired semi-canted shop
windows to ground floor within modern shop front; cornice above; tall
single window to 1st floor; smaller window to 2nd floor. Low parapet;
round Roman numeral clock surmounting, within raised triangular
pediment with pilastered and scrolled bracket sides.
S ELEVATION: modern shop front to ground floor with large window to
left, narrower window and door to right, fascia above with MASON
MURPHY in large plastic letters. To 1st floor, 4 regularly placed tall
windows, bay to right now blind. To 2nd floor, 4 matching smaller bays
with outer bays now blind. Cornice and low parapet surmounting.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining much higher side elevation of Expo on
West George Street.
N ELEVATION: blind end with the exception of small window off centre
right at 1st floor; adjoining adjacent single storey gable-ended building at
ground floor.
Large plate glass windows to shop front; 3 modern timber doors with
glazed panels irregularly placed to ground floor. Essentially 2-pane sash
and case windows to 1st floor, glazed with smaller panes of opaque
squared quarry to lower sash, similar glazing to upper sash with inset
pattern and coloured glass. To 2nd floor, 2-pane sash and case windows
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with plain glass, smaller sliding upper sash. Piended grey slate roof;
aluminium ridging, flashing and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods
concealed behind parapet, downpipes to angle of arched bay and N
elevation. No stacks seen, although central fan-headed cap to principal
elevation formerly a stack with single tall can, now unused.
INTERIOR: ground and 1st floor now both semi open-plan, modern shop
floors. Upper level not seen, 2001.
References:
1st Edition 6"/mile & 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857). John
Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p 52 showing
the building as George Hotel. Frank Beattie, GREETINGS FROM
KILMARNOCK (1994) p34. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p60.
Notes:
This is one of the few remaining historic buildings in Portland Street after
a comprehensive redevelopment of the town centre took place. The
building, now know as Mason & Murphy's house furnishers, was
originally the "George Hotel". It was built in the mid 19th century and was
regarded as Kilmarnock's "5-star" hotel. Standing on the corner of West
George Street and Portland Street, the hotel was within easy reach of
both the town centre and the newly constructed railway. Many visiting
dignitaries were accommodated here, as were the town's important
public functions. The town council held a special dinner here to confer
the Freedom of Kilmarnock to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia,
who was born in Crosshouse. In 1922, the hotel ceased to be, and part
of it was adapted to house the George Cinema. Part of the building was
further altered to house the retail premises of Alex Lind & Co. At one
stage, the town council bought the property to demolish it, but it was
restored and is now back in use as the retail premises of Mason Murphy,
house furnishers.
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authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
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HB Number 35957
Item Number: 143 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
PORTLAND STREET,
WEST HIGH CHURCH
OF SCOTLAND AND
BOUNDARY WALLS
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Cousin and Gale (architects, Edinburgh), 1844. Hall, 1849; session
house, 1859. Free Gothic, rectangular-plan church, extended to N and S,
4-stage tower at east. Polished cream ashlar sandstone church with
coursed rubble buildings to flanks. Corbelled pinnacles to angles,
buttresses and tower. Base, band and stage courses.
E (PRINICPAL) ELEVATION: round-arched entrance at base of
buttressed tower, pair of similarly arched windows above; clock on each
face in 3rd stage, 4th stage set back above stepped string with round
arched belfry openings. Crenellated parapet and angle finials. Low
gabled bays flank base of tower with angle pinnacles and pierced
quatrefoil-detailed parapets, single arched door to returns.
S ELEVATION: 5-bay body of church, tall round-arched 1860 windows
rising into architraved stepped triangular gableheads, stone finials
surmounting. Single storey, 5-bay hall with door additional door to right
adjoining to 1st bay and extending S.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: gable with lower rectangular organ chamber
(1897) projecting: tall central arched window with lower arched windows
to flanks, blind to each return.
N ELEVATION: 5-bay body of church, tall round-arched 1860 windows
rising into architraved stepped triangular gablehead, stone finials
surmounting. Single storey session house of 1859, similar detailing as
church attached to right and projecting N.
Arched windows with square quarry to most bays of all elevations.
Piended grey slate roof to church, hall and session house. Lead ridging,
flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: galleries on 3 sides, supported on cast-iron Corinthian
columns, upper columns support elaborately beamed roof. Ornate pipe
organ to W within recessed arch, gothic timber fretwork to case. Plain
timber pews and panelling. Semi-glazed double doors leading from
entrance porch into main body of church. Later lighting.
BOUNDARY WALLS: low coursed ashlar wall with sloped copes and
much later plain wrought-iron railings.
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References:
Peter Sturrock, 1:3800 map "THE ESTATE OF KILMARNOCK
BELONGING TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND (1849)"
showing church. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857) showing
church and hall. Francis Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF
SCOTLAND (1883) Vol IV, p375. 2nd Edition 25"/mile ORDNANCE
SURVEY MAP (1896) showing church, hall and 1859 session house to
north. G Andrew, HIGH UNITED FREE CHURCH, KILMARNOCK
(1906). Rob Close, AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN, AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p108. Frank Beattie, STREETS &
NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p60 for information on Portland
Street and West High Kirk.
Notes:
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The site on which the church
stands was previously a wooded garden area adjacent to the Bowling
Green. The lane that runs behind the church still bears the name
"Garden Street". The church was built as a Free Church after the 1843
Disruption, along with St Andrew's Church. Originally, the church was
called the Free High church, but became known as the West High
Church, due to its geographical position in relation to the High Church
across the road. In 1876 there was a further secession from this church.
The breakaway congregation formed the Grange Free Church in
Woodstock Street (by J & RS Ingram, listed separately). Although the
church was only constructed in 1844 at a cost of ?3000, by 1883 the
1228 sitting church had had over ?1000 spent on alteration and
enlargement. The hall sited to the S of the church was built around the
same time. The round-arched windows here are indicative of how the
nave of the church may have appeared before the new arched and
gabled windows were raised in 1860. The church sits within its own
private garden ground with trees flanking the main entrance. The church
also has a war memorial on its external wall.
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ground floor, large central pane with roundel surmounting, glazed panel
below, margin panes surrounding all. Copper domed roof surmounting
wide bowed main elevation, ornate bronze finial with flagpole
surmounting; roofing to rest of building concealed by parapets.
Concealed cast-iron rainwater goods. Long ashlar stack to NW of
building; plain cans.
INTERIOR: to former banking hall: partial timber panelling of Indian
Silver greywood; Hoptonwood marble floor with ornament in Swedish
green marble and Italian green, centrepiece a mosaic 1939 "three penny"
piece.
References:
John Wood, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1819) showing
former buildings. 1st Edition ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1857) showing
Exchange Buildings. ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1958) still showing
gap site. 6"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1989) showing
redeveloped town centre. National Monuments Record of Scotland,
RCAHMS: Bin 12, Bag 2, DICK PEDDIE, TODD AND JAMIESON,
DESIGNS & LETTERING, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND,
KILMARNOCK. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK
(1989) p43, 48, 104, 114-115 & 126. Frank Beattie, GREETINGS FROM
KILMARNOCK (1994) inside front cover. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE &
ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) p 101.
Additional information courtesy of former owners.
Notes:
Now the only listed building within the immediate area of The Cross, the
centre of the town. Originally, the building on this site was of similar
shape, but comprised of 3 or 4 separate smaller buildings of similar style
also forming a gushet. The left and centre of the site was home to the
exchange buildings. Later, the angle building was, for many years, home
to Wm. Rankin's Wine and Whisky Shop. This local producer of whisky
was already long established by the time Johnnie Walker set up his
business in 1820. He was so well known for his "Rankin's Kilmarnock
Whisky" that when new owners took over, their advertising board read
"Successors to Wm. Rankin & Sons". By the earlier 20th century, the site
was still in use as a wine and spirit merchants, James Bryce and Sons.
The corner site was bought and instead of refurbishment, a new building
was created. Unlike many of the buildings in Kilmarnock, designed and
built by and for local businesses, this building was purpose built as "The
Cross Branch" of the Royal Bank of Scotland by the architectural firm
Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson of Edinburgh. The builders were a firm
from Glasgow by the name of Thaw & Campbell. The joinery work was
carried out by Scott Morton & Tynecastle, of Edinburgh. The office fittings
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were by Wylie & Lochead, Glasgow. The interior was very impressive
with the focus of the banking hall being the ornate mosaic floor with a
1939 three penny piece at its centre. It was built as a flagship branch.
Administration offices were located on the first floor. The building is no
longer in use as a Royal Bank and was, most recently, a Ladbrokes
betting shop. The building is currently unused. Listed as a good example
of a 1930's bank and for its focal point within the overall townscape of
Kilmarnock.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 48740
Item Number: 74 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category: A
2 AND 4 JOHN FINNIE
STREET AND 26
WEST GEORGE
STREET, FORMER
OSSINGTON HOTEL
Date of Listing 01-AUG-2002
Description:
1883. 2-storey with attic and basement, multi-bayed, French
Renaissance style corner block, formerly hotel. Polished red Ballochmyle
ashlar to ground floor of principal elevations, coursed red sandstone
rubble to 1st floor and rear / side elevations. Segmental-arched windows
with keystone to 1st floor. String courses and advanced eaves cornice
with low parapet.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: essentially 11-bay, divided into 3-blocks.
To bays 1-3: 3 regularly placed shop windows to ground floor; to 1st
floor, central stone balcony projecting from cornice with window behind,
advanced pilasters flanking; segmental-arched window with apron panels
to outer bays; central attic dormer with roof light to right. To bays 4-8: 3
former long windows, outer bays now altered to form doors; to 1st floor
paired segmental arched windows to outer bays, similar single window to
centre, 5 matching attic dormers. To bays 9-11: stepped, pilastered door
surround to 9th bay, moulded consoles supporting cornice, triangular
pediment to centre and vased plinths to flanks; giant windows adjoining
each other to 10th and 11th bays. To 1st floor: slightly advanced outer
bays with aedicule style surround windows with channelled pilasters and
triangular pediments breaking eaves, top of door surround engaging
window to left, apron panel below far right window; tripartite window to
centre with apron panel below. To attic, pair of modern dormers to
centre, former tops of lower pediments flanking.
N ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay comprising central door surround with
roll-moulded arrises, large rectangular window to flanks, angles of
ground floor curved with squared corbels leading to 1st floor cornice. To
1st floor, central 3-sided projecting bay window with pilasters to flanks,
triangular pediment with blind shield surmounting; segmental bipartite
window to flanks, eaves cornice with shallow parapet surmounting.
Modern dormers to outer bays of attic.
E ELEVATION: essentially 3 stepped blocks. Canted side return of N
elevation to right: window to ground floor left; to 1st floor, window to left
of each bay; paired attic dormer to left bay. To centre, canted 4-bay
elevation divided 3,1 with 2-storey, extension, partially columned ground
floor: to right bays, single window to basement, tripartite window to
ground floor, single window to 1st floor; to left bays: door to lower ground
floor left in stilted 2-storey, single bay lean-to addition, door to main
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HB Number 35929
Item Number: 92 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
KILMARNOCK
RAILWAY STATION,
SUBWAY TO
GARDEN STREET
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Circa 1878. 2-storey castellated entrance tower, set into embankment
with single storey, 2-bay wing to left. Droved red sandstone ashlar with
chamfered reveals. Heavily corbelled, castellated parapet. Continuous,
squared hoodmould to wing.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to right, tower entrance: paired entrance
doors with 4-centred arched heads and hoodmoulds. To 1st floor,
moulded sill band with scrolled label stops, 3 narrow lights to centre with
haunched heads. Replacement eaves course directly below moulded
corbels, castellated parapet. To left of elevation: pair of rectangular
windows with squared, continuous hoodmould; castellated parapet
surmounting.
W ELEVATION: blind end diagonally inset into hillside; upper storey of
towered entrance rising behind. Castellated parapet to both, corbelled to
tower. Rear wall adjoining to left.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: elevation concealed by 2-storey, coursed
sandstone wall following gradient of hillside to N and forming rear of
property to S; segmental stone copes surmounting wall.
E ELEVATION: blind end diagonally inset into hillside; corbelled,
castellated parapet surmounting. Adjoining rear wall to far right rear.
8-pane, double-glazed sash and case windows to wing; single pane,
double-glazed windows with haunched heads to 1st floor of tower.
Timber boarded doors with matching in-fill to arch heads. Flat roofs
concealed behind parapets, materials not seen. Painted cast-iron
rainwater goods; gutters concealed behind parapet, downpipes to outer
angles of towered entrance with decorative, moulded rectangular
hoppers.
INTERIOR: semi-panelled entrance passage with bank of windows with
timber bracketed sill to left, looking into single storey bay (currently in use
as a taxi business). Refurbished painted long passage with flight of steps
to left, leading to platforms, or continuing along to later Hill Street
entrance.
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References:
A. Fullarton & Co, TOPOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL & HISTORICAL
GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND (1851) Vol.II pp123-124. Charles Reid,
PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing station.
Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES AROUND KILMARNOCK (?) p3. Gordon
Biddle & O S Nock THE RAILWAY HERITAGE OF BRITAIN (1983),
p135. John Strawhorn & Ken Andrew, DISCOVERING AYRSHIRE
(1988) p194. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK
(1989) p8 & 43 for station. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN - AN
ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992) p103.
Notes:
The subway runs from the junctions of John Finnie / Garden / West
George Streets and Langlands Brae through the hill to the railway station
and out onto Hill Street. The Hill Street entrance is more modern and not
as formal as this fine castellated approach to the station
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on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HBNUM: 48743
ITEM NO: 91
Group with Items:
Map Ref.: NS
STATUTORY LIST
CAT: B
42699
38249
KILMARNOCK STATION,
K6 TELEPHONE KIOSK
Group Cat.:
Date of Listing: 01-AUG-2002
DESCRIPTION:
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935. Standard K6 telephone kiosk.
REFERENCES:
G Stamp, TELEPHONE BOXES (1989) pp15-16.
NOTES:
The K6 is also known as the Jubilee Kiosk, commemorating the Silver Jubilee
year of George V, during which the GPO set up a Committee to redesign the
telephone kiosk for mass production, with a Jubilee Concession Scheme
providing one kiosk for each village with a Post Office. Scott was asked to
design a new kiosk in March 1935, and after approval by the Royal Fine Art
Commission, the K6 went into production in 1936. The same commission
had, in 1924, decided on the colour red for the kiosk, being "easy to spot and
giving an authorative and official character".
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HB Number 35918
Item Number: 85 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
JOHN FINNIE
STREET, DISTRICT
COUNCIL OFFICES
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Gabriel Andrew, 1879 -1880; extended 1889. Large 3-storey and
basement, Free Renaissance commercial block building with classical
details, 4-storey domed tower and clock. 10-bays to John Finnie Street,
angle tower with Dunlop Street and 5-bay return; curved angle to John
Dickie Street with 7-bay return and additional 4-storey, 13-bay block
detailed as main elevation. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar with
rusticated piers to angles, central bays to John Finnie Street elevation
and to clock pediment entrance bay to John Dickie Street. White brick
rear with red sandstone dressings, red brick gable. 1st floor principal
windows with stilted heads and alternating triangular and segmental
pediments. Bracketed cornice and blocking course.
W (PRINCIPAL - JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: 2 almost
identical 3-storey, 5-bay blocks linked to returns by bowed angles.
Altered ground floor to left hand block: modern door to left, 3 enlarged
bays to right; to 1st floor, 5 windows with stilted heads and alternating
triangular and segmental pediments; to 2nd floor, 5 architraved
rectangular windows with adjoined flanking pilasters each supporting a
bracket of the cornice; blocking course surmounting. Right hand block
identical, but retaining original ground floor of window to each bay, bar
4th bay with blind door. SW ANGLE: bow flanked by full height rusticated
quoins, central door with blind flanking panels supporting corbelled
cornice; to 1st floor, tripartite window with stilted heads and linked
triangular-segmental-triangular pediment; canted tripartite window to 2nd
floor with panelled mullions; bracketed cornice supporting semibalustraded parapet with squared end plinths and stone vases
surmounting; clock to centre under shell pediment.
NW (DUNLOP STREET) ELEVATION: timber entrance door with glazed
fanlight to 4th bay, pilastered surround supporting decorated frieze and
segmental pediment; later large rectangular windows to bays 1-3, later
tripartite window to 5th bay. Five 1st floor windows with stilted heads and
alternating triangular and segmental pediments; to 2nd floor, 5
architraved rectangular windows with adjoined flanking pilasters each
supporting a bracket of the cornice; blocking course surmounting. NW
ANGLE: bow flanked by full height rusticated quoins, 3 later windows
with pilaster mullions supporting corbelled cornice; to 1st floor, tripartite
window with stilted heads and linked triangular-segmental-triangular
pediment; tripartite window to 2nd floor with panelled mullions; bracketed
cornice supporting semi-balustraded parapet with squared end plinths
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and stone vases surmounting; octagonal tower rising behind at 3rd
storey with scooped parapet and vaulted dome roof.
NE AND E (STRAND STREET) ELEVATION: essentially M-plan. To left,
brick gable of John Dickie Street elevation with smaller building adjoining
to lower storeys. To centre, regularly fenestrated 3-storey, 2-bay hall with
tripartite windows to upper levels and vehicular entrances to ground floor,
3-sided canted end with tripartite windows to upper floors. To right, blind
gable end of Dunlop Street elevation except for bipartite window to
ground floor left.
S (JOHN DICKIE STREET) ELEVATION: original 7-bay building to left,
13-bay extension to right. To left of elevation: paired pilaster doorpiece to
3rd bay with decorative cornice and triangular pediment, 2-bays to left
and 4-bays to right with altered fenestration. Seven 1st floor windows
with stilted heads and alternating triangular and segmental pediments; to
2nd floor, 7 architraved rectangular windows with adjoined flanking
pilasters each supporting a bracket of the cornice; blocking course
surmounting. 3rd bay of upper floors slightly advanced with rusticated
quoins to flanks and triangular pediment surmounting eaves. To right of
elevation, formal entrance to 11th bay: paired plinthed pilaster doorpiece
with recessed segmental headed inner doorway; decorative cornice and
segmental pediment surmounting; 2 large windows to flanks with further
door and window to left; essentially 2 altered bays covering ground floor
bays 1-6, now blind to left, much later recessed glazed door and window
to right. 13 1st floor windows with stilted heads and alternating triangular
and segmental pediments; to 2nd floor, 13 architraved rectangular
windows with adjoined flanking pilasters each supporting bracket of
cornice; blocking course surmounting. 11th bay of upper floors slightly
advanced with rusticated quoins to flanks and open base triangular
pediment breaking eaves, stone vase surmounting.
2, 3 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors; all upper
sashes horned; upper sashes also arched on 1st floor. Elaborate stained
glass, 2-light windows to 2nd floor rear hall, visible from Strand Street.
Replacement 2 & 3-pane windows to ground floor. Piended grey slate
roof to main building; metal ridging, flashing and valleys. Copper domed
roof to NW angle. Various stacks, some still with cans
INTERIOR: now used as council offices, halls & staircases still surviving.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. Dean of Guild Drawings: 500-600/503: ALTERATIONS TO
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KILMARNOCK EQUITABLE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, JOHN DICKIE
STREET (G. Andrew, 1898); 2000-2100/228: EXTENSION OF
CENTRAL PREMISES, KILMARNOCK EQUITABLE CO-OP, JOHN
FINNIE & DUNLOP STREET (G. Andrew, not dated); 1000-1100/1077
ALTERATIONS TO KILMARNOCK CO-OP BUILDING, JOHN DICKIE
STREET (W.F. Valentine, not dated). 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY
MAP (1896) showing building. A Robertson, KILMARNOCK EQUITABLE
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED - A 50 YEAR RECORD, 1860 -´0,
p193, 194-9. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK
(1989) pp22-23 & 38. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN
ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank
Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. This building was designed by
Gabriel Andrew for the Kilmarnock Equitable Co-operative Society in
1879. It was the new headquarters within the town and cost ?4,164 to
build. By 1889, such was the success of the Co-op, an extension was
built at a cost of nearly ?14,000 taking the total cost to ?18,000. The
annual turnover of the Kilmarnock Co-op's 13 branches was at the time ?
63,000 per annum. The emblem of the Co-op is a beehive and 2 clasped
hand signifying industrial communism - working together for the common
meal. Many separate departments operated within this main branch. The
basement was used for general storage. The ground floor housed the
reading room; boot & shoe shop; fleshers; fish shop; central grocery;
china; readymades; drapery; general merchandise; tailors' cutting and
fitting room; check office; fruit; egg and linoleum departments. On the
first floor could be found the library; education committee; general office;
savings bank; auditor's room; board room; dressmakers' cutting and
fitting rooms; dressmakers' work rooms; general stores office; tailors'
workrooms; tailoresses' room and machine room. Two halls were
situated on the 2nd floor, the larger one accommodated 600 people and
the smaller one 250-300 people. The latter was used for marriage
ceremonies, where the unions were effected at the hymeneal altar.
Accommodation for a janitor was situated on this floor too. The Co-op
building is now used by East Ayrshire Council as District Council Offices.
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HB Number 35919
Item Number: 84 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
JOHN FINNIE
STREET, COUNCIL
CHAMBERS
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
James Montgomery Pearson, 1903 - 1905. Large Free Renaissance
commercial block with 3-storey, 3-bay symmetrical front to John Finnie
Street with curved angle bays leading to returns on John Dickie Street
and College Wynd. Polished red sandstone ashlar with channelled piers
to ground floor; giant angle pilasters divide upper bays. Windows, some
with carved panels above and below, divided by pilasters above ground
floor. Scrolled curved pediments at angles and central pediment, all
above broad decorative friezes and linked by balustrades.
W (PRINCIPAL, JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: curved angle bay
to left: arched door surround with rusticated voussoirs and enlarged
keystone; carved figure and scroll detail in each spandrel supporting
decorated frieze; tripartite window to 1st floor; band course with
triangular detail to centre; tripartite window to 2nd floor; scrolled curved
segmental headed pediment with stone finial surmounting. Similar angle
bay to right with arched window replacing door. 3 central bays: bipartite
window to each at ground floor; to 1st floor, bipartite windows to outer
bays with tripartite window to centre; identical fenestration to 2nd floor
with arch detail to central bay, leading into decorative frieze and
triangular pediment.
S (COLLEGE WYND) ELEVATION: bipartite window to ground floor left,
3 small square high windows to right; cornice. Tripartite window to 1st
and 2nd floor, balustraded parapet linking flanking angle pilasters. Single
plainer bay adjoining to right with door to ground floor and window to 1st
floor; brick right return with regularly placed windows. L-plan elevation of
adjacent offices to far right.
E (REAR, LOW CHURCH LANE) ELEVATION: arched angle bay to right
(see W ELEVATION for details); to centre, 2 large altered bays to ground
floor, rusticated pilasters with carved heads dividing, cornice. Paired
windows to 1st & 2nd floor. To left, door with smaller higher window to
left; to 1st and 2nd floors, window to left, narrower one to right; enclosed
parapet surmounting. Additional former 2-storey, now 3-storey, 7-bay
building to far left.
N (JOHN DICKIE STREET) ELEVATION: two 3-storey, stepped blocks
of 7-bays to left and 2-bays to right. To right block: tripartite window to
left, paired bipartite windows to right. Bipartite window to left on upper
floors, tripartite windows to right on upper floors with architraved
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surround to 2nd floor. To left block: to slightly advanced 5th bay, arched
door surround with rusticated voussoirs and enlarged keystone,
segmental pediment surmounting; bipartite windows above to 1st & 2nd
floors with triangular pediment surmounting. Tripartite window to 6th and
7th bay; elongated windows spanning 1st and 2nd floors above. To left of
door, 4 regular bays to ground floor, matching bipartite windows to 1st
and 2nd floors. Curved angle bay to far right and left (see W ELEVATION
for details). Balustraded parapet spanning all, finial surmounting pilaster
plinths.
2-pane timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes. Some
plate glass windows to ground floor windows with 3-pane upper lights to
John Dickie Street elevation, fixed arched lights to some doors. Piended
grey slate roof concealed behind parapet.
INTERIOR: currently in use as council offices, some modernisation has
occurred; some original features survive, plaster cornicing, staircase and
internal doors.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (´0). Rob Close, AYRSHIRE
& ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103
-105. Rob Close, SOME KILMARNOCK ARCHITECTS (in "Aspects of
Local History" 1999) pp57-58. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS,
OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors
were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The
street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. This building is a block overlooking
both John Finnie Street and to the rear the Laigh Kirk. The architect of
was James Montgomery Pearson of 51 John Finnie Street. This building
was originally called the Wallace Chambers and was built for Messrs
William Wallace & Co. In 1790 William Wallace founded a distillery
company in Kilmarnock called Wallace Company. The main site of the
company was on Low Glencairn Street, although these offices were built
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in the town centre on John Finnie Street. In the 1920s, Wallace Company
was taken over by Johnnie Walker's who had substantial property in the
adjacent Dunlop and Strand Street. The building has since been taken
over by the East Ayrshire Council and is currently used as offices. An
additional building in Low Church Lane has been heightened and is also
used by the council.
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HB Number 35906
Item Number: 83 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
JOHN FINNIE
STREET, CENTRAL
EVANGELICAL
CHURCH
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Circa 1900; later addition. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical former hall; Italian
Romanesque detailing. Snecked and stugged red sandstone ashlar;
polished dressings. Base course; shallow, recessed central segmentalarched bay with balustraded balcony; eaves course; balustrade; large,
central blocking course with scrolled shoulders. Pedestrian gateways
flanking main building. 2-storey later range to right.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: shallow recessed 2-storey central
segmental-arched bay with keystone; entrance door with fanlight;
balcony with scrolled brackets above; 3 round-headed arched windows;
tripartite windows in end bays at ground; 4 round-headed arched
windows in end bays at 1st floor. 2 windows at ground floor on left return;
single storey range to rear with row of round-headed windows. 2-storey
range to right: banded rustication to ground floor; wide canted corner
bay; shop windows and garage door to ground; 2 single windows to E
elevation at 1st floor; single window to canted corners; 5 single windows
to John Dickie Street elevation.
Multi-pane glazing. Slate roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
3rd Edition OS Map, ´0; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE, 1992, p103.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
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who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood.
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Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 49625
Item Number: 82 A
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
116-118 (EVEN NOS)
JOHN FINNIE STREET
Category: C(S)
Group Category:
Date of Listing 27-JAN-2004
Description:
Earlier 20th century. 2-storey tenement with shops to ground; flat-iron
plan on prominent gusset site; 9 bays to John Finnie Street, 6 to Bank
Street; 1 corner bay; large plate glass shopfronts to ground floor; timber
panelled 2-leaf doors. Polished red sandstone with black granite
basecourse. Piended roof; broad eaves.
INTERIOR: part seen (2003), nothing original survives.
Timber sash and case 4-pane glazing. Grey slates; ridge stacks; clay
cans.
References:
Notes:
This is a good, solid corner building in the local red sandstone at the
south end of one of the most important streets in Kilmarnock. The
building is almost unaltered and the original glazing and timber doors are
good features. The lack of cills and mouldings is a characteristic element,
giving the building a pared down, modern appearance.
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HB Number 35924
Item Number: 82 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: C(S)
Group Category: A
108 - 114 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
(FORMER
KILMARNOCK ARMS)
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Circa 1890. 3-storey, 7-bay, Classical commercial corner building; 3storey, 2-bay returning to Nelson Street. Red sandstone ashlar with
polished dressings, band and eaves courses. Pilastered and architraved
windows. Yellow brick rear elevation and lesser stacks.
W (PRINCIPAL - JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: irregularly
fenestrated later ground floor. To 1st and 2nd bays, much later shop front
with roll down security shutters; large painted fascia board lit by gold
lights above; to 3rd bay, door with window to flanks; no fascia, but arched
sign to left of window. From end of 4th bay to start of 7th bay, shop
window with small arched sign to right, pair of semi-glazed doors to right;
large fascia board lit by gold lights above. To 7th and 8th bay, large
paired windows; panelled door to right with small rectangular fanlight
surmounting. 7 regularly placed architraved windows to 1st floor. String
course supporting band course. To 2nd floor, 7 pilastered windows with
recessed rectangular aprons above band course; angle pilasters, all
pilasters adjoining eaves course.
N (NELSON STREET) ELEVATION: later door to ground floor left with
original bipartite window to right. To 1st floor: paired windows to left,
single window to right. To 2nd floor: window to right, now blind.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: partially concealed behind Bank Street and
Nelson Street buildings; some blind brick expanses visible near eaves.
S ELEVATION: blind gable end adjoining lower 2-storey building
(currently insurance and Co-op Funeral and Monumental Services).
2-pane timber sash and case windows to upper floors, horned upper
sashes; replacement mock sash and case window 5th bay of 2nd floor.
Modern plate glass shop windows to ground floor retail units with semiglazed doors. Later, pitched, brown concrete tile, replacement roof;
matching ridge tiles. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods to principal
elevations; gutters concealed by cornice, downpipes to N elevation;
replacement plastic gutter to rear elevation. Coursed, red ashlar
wallhead stack to 3rd bay of principal elevation, with stepped base,
projecting neck copes and 4 yellow cans. Similar stepped stack between
bays 7 and 8, but narrower with 3 yellow cans. Yellow brick wallhead
stack to N elevation, replacement terracotta cans; much later silver
ventilation flues to angles. Wide, yellow brick, roofline stack with stone
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neck cope and 4 cans.
INTERIOR: ground floor modernised to form food outlets, previously a
public house. Upper floors, not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL
GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors
were given over to retail; offices and accommodation were above. The
street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. This building was constructed in
around 1890. The ground floor was used for commercial premises, whilst
the upper floors were accommodation. By the 1930's, most of the ground
floor was taken up by "A Stevenson Shipping". Miss Mary J McCormack,
a spirit merchant, was found at 112. 110 was accommodation and
housed, amongst others, a miner and a motor driver. At 114 was found
Gilbert Bunton, tailors. Currently, the building is still in commercial use.
Previously, the ground floor was home to the "Kilmarnock Arms" public
house.
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HB Number 35923
Item Number: 81 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
100 - 106 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: C(S)
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Possibly J & RS Ingram, 1876. 3-storey, 4-bay by 5-bay, symmetrical
Italianate, commercial building. Coursed red sandstone ashlar. Giant
angle pilasters. 1st floor windows with chamfered arrises and lintels.
Bracketed eaves course, cornice and blocking course.
W (PRINCIPAL - JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: altered
pilastered door to 1st ? of 2nd bay: timber door with 3-lying panes, blind
rectangular fanlight above; full-height pilaster to left. To 1st bay, modern
shop front with door in right, large painted fascia above. To right, former
large shop with central doorway, now subdivided to form single bay shop
at left; former central door with small window to left and large window to
right; full length fascia above with 104 McSHERRY HALLIDAY lettering
to left and J.H. THOMSON 106 lettering to centre and right. Heavy band
course above. To 1st floor: 4 bipartite windows with chamfered arrises
and lintels, resting on rectangular panelled aprons; pilasters matching
those at angles to outer flanks of bays 2 and 3. Narrower band course
above. To 2nd floor: 4 arched bipartite windows with chamfered arrises,
resting on rectangular panelled aprons; pilasters matching those at
angles to outer flanks of bays 2 and 3. Bracketed eaves course
terminating in cornice, slightly stepped to central bays.
N ELEVATION: narrow gap adjacent to modern bank building, N gabled
elevation not seen, 2001.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: concealed behind roofline of Bank Street
building
S (NELSON STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation: central door
now blocked; pair of now blind windows to flanks. To 1st floor, 5 regularly
placed segmental-headed windows with shallow panelled apron panels
below, resting on heavy band course. To 2nd floor, 5 round arched
windows with shallow panelled apron below, resting on narrower band
course. Bracketed eaves course and cornice.
2-pane timber sash and case windows to upper 2 floors, arched heads to
2nd floor; blind to right hand side of 2nd bay at both floors, although
window remains; modern plate glass shop windows to ground floor; blind
windows to ground floor of Nelson Street elevation in-filled with red
sandstone. Pitched grey slate roof, terminating in gable to N. Painted
cast-iron rainwater goods; gutters concealed within cornice, down pipes
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placed to side elevations. Yellow brick stacks with some plain yellow
cans remaining to E gable, lowered substantially to N gable, still full
height to roofline stack.
INTERIOR: altered at ground floor to form 3 shops; pilastered doorway
altered with loss of timber panelled door. Upper levels in use as offices,
not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL
GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors
were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The
street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. This property was known as
"Smith's Building" and may have been linked with the printing firm of
Smiths who moved further down Nelson Street after premises were built
after the turn of the century. The building has had many uses, although
the ground floor has always remained in commercial usage. The
newsagent's at 106, "JH Thomson", has been in this shop many years. It
is listed in the early 1930's directory as being a stationer and
tobacconists. In 104 was "Elizabeth's" and at 100 could be found "William
Brown, tailor and clothier". 102, the upper floors, were rooming
tenements where a carriage repairer, a joiner and a bond worker have all
lived.
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HB Number 35914
Item Number: 73 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: A
75-79 (ODD NOS)
JOHN FINNIE
STREET, GEORGE
TANNAHILL AND
SONS
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
1894 - 1895. 3-storey, 4-bay Glasgow-style shop with tenement
accommodation and vehicular pend. Coursed red Ballochmyle sandstone
ashlar. Polished ashlar dressings to bay windows and doors. String
course, sill bands and eaves cornice. Skew gabled with moulded
skewputts.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: original shop front to central and right hand
bays: attached Corinthian banded shafts flank recessed entrance;
retractable wrought-iron guard rails; funnelled entrance leading to
bipartite timber door surround, central pilaster holding scrolled foliate
pediment, pair of square windows surmounting; shop window to flanks of
entrance. Architraved door surround with scrolled pediment to left,
rectangular fanlight; high 2-leaf timber panelled door vehicular access to
extreme left. Painted timber ovolo fascia for length of building with
CABINETMAKERS: GEORGE TANNAHILL & SONS: UPHOLSTERERS
in gold. Symmetrical 1st and 2nd floors: semi-corbelled, 2-storey canted
bay windows with chamfered arrises to 1st & 4th bay, eaves cornice
supporting triangular pediment to central lights of 2nd floor. To 2nd and
3rd bay of 1st floor, window surround with lugged architraves and
scrolled pediments. String course. To 2nd and 3rd bays of 2nd floor,
window surround with lugged architraves. Eaves cornice.
S ELEVATION: white-washed gable end with TANNAHILL painted red on
right diagonal of gable; adjoining much lower and later 2-storey retail and
residential building.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.
N ELEVATION: gable end adjoining 3-storey Post Office (listed
separately).
2-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass lower panes, stained
glass of square quarry with stained glass margins and central pattern to
horned upper sashes. Plate glass shop windows flanking 2-pane glazed
door in recess; 9-pane fixed timber fanlights; plate glass main windows
with glazed margins to sides and top. Piended grey slate roof. Metal
ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters
concealed within cornice, decorative rectangular hoppers. Stacks
missing to gables.
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INTERIOR: ground floor still in use as a furniture retailer, many original
features in shop: timber shop fittings and skirting boards, plaster
cornicing, timber and plaster columns to open-plan shop. Residential
accommodation, not seen 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
Kilmarnock Directories (1900 - 1936 used). Dean of Guild Drawings, 400500/1426: Proposed extension to showrooms, George Tannahill & Son,
John Finnie Street (1909, unsigned). Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank
Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This
building was designed as a shop on the ground floor. The doorway to the
left leads to the upper floor accommodation usually used by the
proprietor of the shop. Tannahill's has always been listed as a
cabinetmaker and upholsterer in the Kilmarnock Street Directories,
although now they are branded furniture retailers too. The vehicular arch
(ground floor left) was used to access the yard at the rear of the
premises where timber and supplies were kept in the workshop. The
"showroom" (shop) was extended after the building was built, but kept its
original style. This is one of a few surviving buildings still in retail /
accommodation use with its original vehicular access; another can be
found on Glencairn Street (listed separately). The original shop front and
interior fittings are of particular interest.
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Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
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HB Number 35913
Item Number: 72 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
73 JOHN FINNIE
STREET, POST
OFFICE
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
W T Oldrieve, 1907. 3-storey, 5-bay by 8-bay corner block Post Office
with Renaissance details and canted corner. Coursed red Ballochmyle
sandstone ashlar. Base course, main mutule cornice and low parapet.
Architraved window surrounds. Triangular pediments to 2nd floor bays
flanking corner.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern polished granite post office
frontage in 3 left bays, architraved window to 4th bay; 4 identically
treated bays to 1st floor; mutule cornice with 4 windows to 2nd floor, low
parapet surmounting. 5th bay leading to canted corner: wide, slightly
advanced triangular pedimented bay, Venetian window with column
mullions and broken base pediment to ground floor; tripartite window with
columned mullions to 1st floor; mutule cornice leading to recessed
swagged oculi with projecting keystone, within broken base triangular
pediment. Canted angle bay: architraved bipartite window to ground
floor, shorter bipartite window to 1st floor with open segmental pediment
with broken base; aedicule window to 2nd floor with carved E R with
crown between, raised and decorated parapet surmounting.
N ELEVATION: 1st bay adjoining canted corner to left: wide, slightly
advanced triangular pedimented bay, Venetian window with column
mullions and broken base pediment to ground floor; tripartite window with
columned mullions to 1st floor; mutule cornice leading to recessed
swagged oculi with projecting keystone, within broken base triangular
pediment. Former tripartite entrance to 2nd & 3rd bays: outer door bays
now in-filled to form windows, original window between, 3 smaller
windows above each, architraved window to bays 4 & 5, door with
rectangular fanlight to 6th bay, architraved window to bays 7 & 8.
Architraved windows to each bay of 1st floor, tripartite window to 4th bay.
Mutule cornice leading to 2nd floor, regularly placed smaller windows to
each bay, parapet surmounting.
S ELEVATION: adjoining George Tannahill & Sons, 75 & 77 John Finnie
Street (listed separately)
W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining much later 2-storey Nelson Street
sorting office.
12 & 8-pane timber sash and case windows. 16-pane timber fixed oculus
windows to pedimented bays; fixed single pane arched windows to
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ground floor tripartite windows. Piended grey slate roof. Painted cast-iron
rainwater goods; concealed gutters and partially concealed downpipes.
INTERIOR: ground floor remodelled to provide modern entrance and
shop interior; administration offices / sorting offices not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (´0) showing Post Office.
THE BUILDER V122 (1922, 20 January) p120. Dean of Guild Drawings,
Various / LLGPO: Alterations to Post Office, John Finnie Street, 1961.
Royal Institute of British Architects, DIRECTORY OF BRITISH
ARCHITECTS 1834 -1900 (1993) p673. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE &
ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000)
p38.
Notes:
Part of John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ? mile
long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for the
town with the focal point to the north being the railway station. Business
and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3-storey or
more, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors were
given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The street
dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were filled with
traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton, who went
on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and the surveyor
was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built, Archibald
Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This building was
designed specifically to be a Post Office. The architect, William Thomas
Oldrieve FSI FSAScot (1853 - 1922), was the Principal Architect and
Surveyor for Scotland. He had been appointed Architect for all Provincial
Post Offices in 1898. Previously he had been with the Office of Works in
Edinburgh (1881); Chief Architect's Office, London Office of Works; in
charge of Manchester District Office of Works and Chief Assistant to the
Principal Architect to the Department of Works in England. The building
is still in use as Kilmarnock's main Post Office.
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HB Number 35922
Item Number: 80 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
72 - 84 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
William Railton, 1879 -1880, in the style of Alexander Thomson. 3-storey,
13-bay classical rectangular-plan commercial building with Greek Revival
details; 6-bay return to Bank Place. Polished red Ballochmyle sandstone
ashlar with channelled plinth and moulded band courses between floors;
architraved pedimented windows to 1st floor.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2 modern shop fronts and door to first 5bays; additional modern shop to bays 6 & 7. Original ground floor
elevations at bays 8 - 13 (Nos. 80 - 84): pilastered door with rectangular
fanlight above, flanked by pilastered windows with acanthus capitals,
further altered door to right with adjacent window. To bays 11 -13:
bipartite pilaster mullioned window with semi-pilastered door to right,
altered plain window to right. To 1st floor: 13 regularly placed bays with
broad cill bands with anthemion details set against architraves, block
pediments with incised details set against architraves, block pediments
with incised decoration and terminal anthemions; circa 1984 ROYAL
LIVER ASSURANCE OFFICE lettered sign above bays 10 -13. To 2nd
floor: pilastered windows with slightly recessed anthemion panels
between windows. Eaves course and cornice.
N ELEVATION: adjoining 64 - 70 John Finnie Street (listed separately).
E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001 - concealed behind Bank Street
and Bank Place buildings.
S (BANK PLACE) ELEVATION: essentially 3-storey, 3-bay with 3rd bay
missing to 2nd floor. To ground floor: paired former doors to centre, now
recessed windows; to right, tripartite window with smaller high window to
extreme right; to left, paired rectangular windows. To 1st floor, 3 pairs of
regularly placed rectangular windows, right window of 1st pair blind. To
2nd floor, pair of regularly placed rectangular windows to 1st and 2nd
bay, right window of 1st pair blind, elevation not continued to 3rd bay.
Eaves course and cornice.
Originally 4-pane timber sash and case windows to upper storeys, now
some replaced by timber casement, mock 4-pane sash and case
windows; replacement, 2-pane PVCu windows to 1st floor of Bank Place
elevation. Mostly replacement plate glass windows to ground floor shop
elevations. Shallow piended grey slate roof to John Finnie Street, metal
ridging, flashing and valleys; slight platformed appearance to differing
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storey Bank Place elevation. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters
concealed behind cornice, down pipes left into band courses. 3 tall
coursed red sandstone gablehead and roofline stacks: projecting neck
copes, originally each with 8 squared cans, some now missing or
replaced. Shaped, coursed red ashlar, wallhead stack between bays 3 &
4 of John Finnie Street elevation, sloped base with projecting band and
neck cope, replacement cans. Much lowered, central wallhead stack to
Bank Place, 3 replacement ventilation cans to centre; further partially
concealed corner stack to left, can still in place.
INTERIOR: ground floor corner bays now modernised Alliance and
Leicester offices; ground floor left hand bays altered to form a solicitor's
practise, a take away food outlet and a shop. Upper storeys: remaining in
residential use to first 5-bays; next 8-bays providing offices for the Royal
Liver Assurance Office
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
Dean of Guilds, PROPOSED ALTERATIONS TO PROPERTY AT BANK
PLACE AND JOHN FINNIE STREET (1907, Matthew Muir). John Malkin,
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob Close,
AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE
(1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors
were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The
street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This is a
quite early commercial building by William Railton who also laid out the
street. He was the architect of the now demolished Kilmarnock Infirmary.
It is noted that the building was at one time the post office, replaced
when the new building by Oldrieve was complete. Matthew Muir, a local
builder and sculptor (decorative stone mason), also located in Bank
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Place (from 1887) carried out these works. The building has since been
in primarily commercial use, although 2 tenement flats are still in use to
the left of the building
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HB Number 35921
Item Number: 79 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
64 - 70 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Possibly William Railton, circa 1880. 3-storey, 5-bay commercial building
with Gothic details and modern ground floor. Polished red Ballochmyle
ashlar. Hoodmoulded paired windows with course cill. Cill course and
bracketed cills to 2nd floor. Decorative arcaded parapet. Skew gabled
with squared pyramidal skewputts with cross finials.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: later entrance doors to far left leading to
1st floor; from ? of 1st bay to end of central bay Victoria Wine, door off
centre left with windows to flanks. 2 smaller shop fronts spanning 4th and
5th bays. To 1st floor: moulded cill course; paired pointed-arch windows
with roundel detail heads; central window single light with rows of carved
detail to blind arch head; string at springing rising as hoodmould over
windows. Cill course and bracketed cills to 2nd floor outer bay bipartites,
central light again single light with cusped head and hoodmould. Blind
arcaded parapet, with terminal finials, broken by central gable with
decorative roundel panel with quatrefoil detail and apex stack.
N ELEVATION: adjoining 58 - 62 John Finnie Street (listed separately).
E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.
S ELEVATION: adjoining 72 - 84 John Finnie Street (listed separately).
2-pane timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes; plate
glass windows to later shop units. Piended grey slate roof. Painted castiron rainwater goods, gutters concealed behind decorated parapet.
Yellow brick gablehead stacks with projecting stone neck copes adjoining
those of adjacent buildings, cans removed to S stack, a few plain cans
remaining to N stack; former stack to central front gable.
INTERIOR: ground floor altered to form modern shop units. Upper floors
not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
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TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL
GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors
were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The
street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. This building was one of the earlier
commercial buildings in the street. Originally, there was a formal
entrance to the centre of the building, leading to the upper floors. To its
flanks were shops. It was formerly known as "Peden's Building". A row of
modern shop units have replaced the formerly symmetrical ground floor
facade. In the past, Miss M Hamilton and John Winning (fitter) were
some of the tenants in the upper floors whilst Fergus Douglas, a radiator
specialist, and John Livingston's newsagents were found to the ground
floor. The upper floors are now used as office space.
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enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
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HB Number 35920
Item Number: 78 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
58 - 62 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Gabriel Andrew, dated 1889. 2-storey, 5-bay symmetrical collegiate
gothic range with additional bay and octagonal angle turret at left. .
Polished red Ballochmyle ashlar to principal elevations, white brick with
red sandstone dressings to rear and left of College Wynd elevation.
Buttressed between windows, corbelled parapet. Skew gabled with
moulded skewputts.
W (PRINCIPAL, JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: to centre and
right, 5-bay section: painted central round-arched door. Ground floor
bays divided by pilasters supporting console brackets. Stepped buttresspiers to the upper floor, with decorative gabled details below corbelled
parapet, crowning gabled finials. Modern shopfronts in original
haunched-headed openings to ground floor. Cornice and strings above.
Cill course to tall upper, hoodmoulded, mullion and transomed, 3-light
windows; central window 2-light with sculptured panel above, rising into
gable head. To left bay and corner and right bay of left return: 3-light
angle turret bay boldly canted above ground floor angle pedestal;
bipartite window to adjoining bay in each 1st and 2nd floor return, gable
breaking eaves above right window; turret rising to octagon above eaves
line with narrow, blind, cusped slits set in panels below cornice and
facetted and finialled slate roof.
N ELEVATION (COLLEGE WYND): canted to left, 4-storey, 2-bay brick
section: door and window to ground floor, to upper floors left, single
window, to ?-storeys of upper floors, single window. To right, gabled
return of John Finnie Street elevation: narrow window to left of each floor,
bipartite windows to upper floors forming return of angle turret to right.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: blind brick gable to right of rear, left of elevation
concealed behind College Wynd.
S ELEVATION: adjoining 68-70 (evens) John Finnie Street.
2-pane timber sash and case windows to turreted bays and College
Wynd elevation. Fixed windows to 5-bays of 1st floor: square quarry with
detailed glass shield centres and coloured diamonds to angles. Later
plate glass shop windows to ground floor. Piended grey slate roof, some
metal flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter
concealed behind low parapet. Coursed red sandstone gablehead stack
to N with projecting neck cope and 5 plain cans.
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INTERIOR: ground floor currently in use as a modernised cafe bar;
original central stair case still in existence, plaster cornicing to ceiling;
upper floors: not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL
GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. The majority of this building was
built to house the Oddfellows Hall for the Independent Order of
Oddfellows. This was a benevolent institution organised on a system
similar to the Masons. The Kilmarnock Lodge was founded in 1841 and
by the 20th century had a membership of over 1200. The portion of the
building to the left was built as Portland Estate offices. Latterly it was
used by the Singer Sewing Machine Company and adjacent to it was
William Watson, tailor. The ground floor is now used as the Havanna
Cafe Bar.
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HB Number 35912
Item Number: 71 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
55 AND 57 JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Probably Gabriel Andrew, circa 1890. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay by 3-bay
Flemish Renaissance office and commercial building. Red Ballochmyle
sandstone ashlar; polished granite ground floor with ashlar arches
surmounting. Band, lintel and sill courses; mock parapet with pedimented
attic windows.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: arched door surrounds to extremes of
outer bays, each with 2-leaf timber panelled doors and semi-circular
fanlights, architraved arched surround surmounting leading into band
course; granite below. 3 slightly recessed arched windows to central bay,
pilasters between. 1st and attic floors with 2-storey, 3 & 4-light canted
oriel windows to outer bays with triangular pedimented gableheads.
Bipartite window to central bay of 1st and attic floors, similarly gabled
head to attic.
S ELEVATION: adjoining much lower, late 20th century, 3-storey retail
and office premises; blind 1st floor with central wallhead stack.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining to ground floor: much lower, late 20th
century, flat-roofed office building.
N (WOODSTOCK STREET) ELEVATION: 4 semi-circular arched
windows to ground floor; 3 pilastered and transomed window to each
floor above; architraved triangular pedimented gableheads to attic
windows.
Steeply pitched, piended grey slate roof, lead ridging, flashing and
valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, concealed gutter to projecting
cornice of attic storey, down pipes held within cornicing disappearing to
centre of ground floor. Coursed red ashlar wallhead stack with projecting
moulded neck copes to centre of S elevation, stack to centre of N
elevation now removed.
INTERIOR: remodelled 1988, now forming modern building society to
ground floor, office accommodation above. 2-leaf timber panelled doors
to John Finnie Street doorways, leading to partially glazed inner door
with heavy squared fanlight of square quarry surmounting. Some timber
work surviving, skirting boards etc. Some plaster cornicing to upper
offices.
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References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS
AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail; offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This
building was a branch of the British Linen Bank, a Bank of Scotland and
a Bradford and Bingley branch in the later 20th century. At the present
time, the building is used as the Scottish Building Society with a sheriff's
clerk office above.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35911
Item Number: 70 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
51 AND 53 JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Possibly J & RS Ingram, circa 1870. 2-storey, 5-bay by 3-bay,
rectangular-plan, classical commercial building with channelled piers to
ground floor. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar, rusticated to ground
floor. Polished columns to 1st floor; balustraded parapet. Base and band
courses.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to ground floor: step leading to central
paired timber doors, each with 4-lying panels, enlarged rectangular
fanlight surmounting. Narrower rectangular window with moulded sills
and architraved surrounds flanking door; similarly treated larger windows
to outer bays; lintels merging to form band course; rusticated pilasters
with slightly advanced bases dividing all. To extreme left, small
rectangular black street sign (JOHN FINNIE STREET inscribed and
picked out in gold). Chamfered ground floor angle. Dentilled cornice over
ground floor leading into projecting 1st floor: 3 identical arched bays
consisting of blind balustraded sill, engaged column to flanks supporting
architraved arched lintel, mask keystone, paired architraved band course
surmounting; projecting paired Corinthian columns dividing windows and
to outer angles, decorative winged lions heads in frieze above. Arched
angle leading to Woodstock/Grange Place elevation. Dentilled, modillion
cornice, balustraded parapet.
N ELEVATION: adjoining 2-storey, 43 - 49 John Finnie Street, listed
separately.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining single storey stable building at 3
Grange Place, listed separately.
S ELEVATION: to ground floor, 3 regularly placed rectangular bays with
moulded sills and architraved surrounds, centre bay narrower; lintels
forming band course, rusticated pilasters with slightly advanced bases
dividing; to extreme right, small black rectangular street sign (GRANGE
PLACE inscribed and picked out in gold), contemporary street sign
(WOODSTOCK STREET) adjacent to left. Dentilled cornice over ground
floor leading into projecting 1st floor: 3 identical arched bays consisting of
blind balustraded sill, engaged column to flanks supporting architraved
arched lintel, mask keystone, paired architraved band course
surmounting; projecting paired Corinthian columns dividing windows and
to outer angles, decorative winged lions heads in frieze above. Dentilled,
modillion cornice, balustraded parapet.
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Later, timber single pane windows to ground floor elevations. 3-pane
timber casement windows to 1st floor: paired panes with semi-circular
fixed arched window surmounting. Shallow, piended grey slate roof.
Concealed, cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: formerly offices, then a bank: wooden panelled interior of
ground floor bank, now missing. Upstairs office: fine plastered ceiling
surviving, ornate ceiling roses, plaster cornicing and angles.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS
AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors were
given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The street
dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were filled with
traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton, who went
on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and the surveyor
was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built, Archibald
Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. In 1875, this building
was the office of Archibald Finnie and Sons, local coal merchants who
lived at Springhill House, now a retirement home. The offices were later
the Kilmarnock Savings Bank.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
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HB Number 35910
Item Number: 69 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
43-49 (ODD NOS)
JOHN FINNIE STREET
Category: C(S)
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Earlier 20th century; later alterations. 2-storey, 5-bay range with classical
details. Modern shops at ground floor. Red sandstone ashlar. Channelled
piers at ground; blind balustraded band course at 1st floor; 1st floor
divided by single and paired engaged Corinthian columns; lightly
projecting canted central bay; entablature; balustraded parapet; blind
parapet to central with raised cornice. Pend at right.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern shop front at ground with
channelled piers. Slightly projecting central canted bay with tripartite
window on front face and single windows on side faces; tripartite
windows flank centre. Attic box dormer to outer left.
Circa 1920s glazing with opening top hoppers and fixed lower panes.
Pitched slate roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, 1992, p103.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors were
given over to retail; offices and accommodation were above. The street
dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were filled with
traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton, who went
on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and the surveyor
was Robert Blackwood.
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be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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Item Number: 68 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
39 AND 41 JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Circa 1870; later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical Italian Gothic
property. Modern shop fronts to ground floor. Red Ballochmyle
sandstone. Distinctive 1st floor design divided by pilasters with facetted
finials; higher central bay with gablehead; bracketed cills to windows;
mock machicolated cornice.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: modern shop fronts to ground. Central
gable at 1st floor: quadripartite window with stone mullions and
transoms; hoodmould rises to central star enclosing plaque; crowstepped
gable above with central arched light with hoodmould; fleur-de-lys finial
at apex. Tripartite windows in end bays: pointed-arched architraves and
hoodmoulds enclosing carved hatching.
2-pane timber sash and case windows to 1st floor. Slate roof; straight
skews to roof; short, corniced brick stacks at gableheads.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
2nd Edition OS Map, ´0; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE, 1992, p103.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground floors were
given over to retail; offices and accommodation were above. The street
dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were filled with
traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton, who went
on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and the surveyor
was Robert Blackwood.
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on 25 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35908
Item Number: 67 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: A
31 - 37 (ODD
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
LAIGH KIRK MISSION
HALL
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
1896; later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical gothic hall and shops;
additional bay to right. Stugged red sandstone ashlar; polished ashlar
dressings. Tudor central doorway; string course at 1st floor; 2 gables at
1st floor with 4-centred arches encompassing windows and carving in the
arch heads. Modern shops to ground.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central doorway composed of semioctagonal piers and crenellated parapet with carved name 'Laigh Kirk
Mission Hall; pointed-arched head to door with carving. Modern shop
windows flanking ground. Central single window at 1st floor with
gablehead. Large gables to end bays; foliate carvings at tip of
gableheads; tripartite windows with stone mullions and transoms with
arched architraves and hoodmoulds enclosing carved panels: central
round niche with masks and decorative carving. Tripartite window with
stone mullions and transoms in additional bay.
Modern glazing. Slate roof.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
3rd Edition OS Map, ´0; Dean of Guild Drawings 400-500/453, 400500/483; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, 1992,
p103.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 35917
Item Number: 77 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
30 - 38 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Robert Ingram, 1895. 3-storey with attic and basement, multi-bayed,
asymmetrical Free Renaissance block with 4-storey polygonal corner
detail, returning to Dunlop Street. Coursed bull-faced red sandstone
ashlar with polished ashlar dressings to principal elevations; coursed red
sandstone rubble to rear; yellow and white glazed brick extension with
red ashlar dressings. Band courses, pilastered window surrounds,
pedimented dormers resting on dentilled main cornice.
W (PRINICPAL) ELEVATION: multi-windowed, 4-bay: to 3rd bay,
bipartite pilastered door surround with timber doors with blocked
rectangular fanlights, plate glass cafe to right; 2 retail units to bays 1 & 2
with door between. Band course fascia above all. To 1st and 3rd bay of
upper floors; pilastered, architraved tripartite windows with stone
mullions, three pilastered windows to 2nd bay, apron panels to all.
Pilastered and pedimented wallhead dormers to attic: rectangular to 1st
bay with tripartite window; in 2nd bay, 3 triangular pediments with single
window to each; to 3rd bay, nepus dormer with triangular pediment and
tripartite window; to 4th bay, single window with triangular pediment.
Adjoining corner elevation to right.
SW (CORNER) ELEVATION: essentially a canted 5-side, bay window
with blind 5th bay to all floors concealing stack flue: 4 glazed windows to
ground floor with blind panel to 5th bay; to 3 upper floors, pilastered
architraved windows to bays 1-4 with apron panelling beneath. Projecting
cornice supporting faceted slate roof with slender open cupola, ornate
brass finial surmounting.
S (DUNLOP STREET) ELEVATION: 3-storey with attic and basement: 2leaf boarded door 4th bay of basement, bipartite windows with stone
mullions to 2nd and 3rd bay, single window to 1st bay. To ground, 1st
and 2nd floor: single window to 1st bay, tripartite window to other 3
regularly placed bays, band course between floors. Slightly projecting
cornice with triangular pedimented wallhead dormers to 1st, 2nd and 4th
bays; wallhead stack to 3rd bay.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: shaped double L-plan to rear: to left, blind gable
end of Dunlop Street elevation, inner return joining white brick extension
to right by means of open verandas with plain wrought-iron railings,
single bay to inner return of brick extension, blind end, further recessed
bay of main wall to right. N ELEVATION: adjoining 14 - 28 John Finnie
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Street (listed separately).
3 and 7-pane sash and case windows, 2 and 6 coloured panes to upper
sashes, plate glass to lower sashes. Grey slate mansard roof to main
building with pedimented stone attic dormers; piended grey slate roof to
rear and rear arms; faceted slate roof to corner with slender cupola
surmounting; all with metal ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted castiron rainwater goods draining to Dunlop Street elevation, gutters partially
concealed within eaves cornice. Wallhead stack to Dunlop street
elevation with paired cans, wallhead stack with terracotta cans to blind
corner bays.
INTERIOR: modern shops to ground floor; tenements above.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building.
Various KILMARNOCK DIRECTORIES. John Malkin, PICTORIAL
HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE &
ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000)
p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone buildings were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings which were
deliberately built of red stone to provide a coherent view. Robert Ingram
who also designed the 2 previous buildings designed this building. The
ground floor was given over to retail, with the Blue Triangle Cafe still
remaining glazed as it was when built. The building has housed various
businesses as diverse as Bright Hosiery Manufacturer, the Department
of Health for Scotland, Wellbeck Estate Company and Portland Estate
Office. The upper floors contained tenements and rooming apartments.
The diversity of the residents was interesting. By the 1930's, there were
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motor drivers, a pedlar, a carter, a "boot and shoe operator" at Saxone
Shoe Factory and an "engineer and machinery" agent. Currently the
building is still in use with retail units on the ground floor and
accommodation above.
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Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35907
Item Number: 66 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
25 - 29 (ODD
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Later 19th century; later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical
property. Cream sandstone ashlar. Shop fronts to ground with strip
pilasters to outer left and right; central door with bracketed cornice; string
course at 1st floor; regular fenestration above with hoodmoulds; quoins
at assizes; eaves course and blocking course; gateway to right. Adjoining
building at left.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central door with bracketed cornice; shop
fronts flanking composed of central doors and large flanking windows;
decorated strip pilasters at ends. Central single window at 1st floor;
bipartite windows in end bays.
2-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; modern glazing at
ground. Slate roof; straight skews; tall, brick stack at left gablehead.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
2nd Edition OS Map, ´0; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE, 1992, p103.
Notes:
Part of John Finnie Street A-Group. This is the only property on John
Finnie Street that is not constructed from Red Sandstone. This alone,
highlights the design. John Finnie Street is nearly ? mile long and was
built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for the town with the
focal point to the north being the railway station. Business and commerce
spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3-storey or more, red
sandstone building were constructed. The ground floors were given over
to retail, offices and accommodation were above. The street dominated
the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were filled with traditional
buildings. The street's architect was William Railton, who went on to
design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and the surveyor was
Robert Blackwood.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35916
Item Number: 76 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
16 - 28 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
Category: B
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Robert S. Ingram, 1880. 3-storeys and attic, 8-bay (1,1,4,1,1) French
Renaissance commercial building with modern shops and tenement
accommodation. Polished red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar with
rusticated piers to wider outer bays. Carved pilasters to central bays,
shallow advanced end pavilions. Deep, bracketed main cornice.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern shop to 1st & 8th bay; door to
upper floors in 2nd & 7th bay, 2 asymmetric shop units in bays 3-6 and
most of 2nd bay. Continuous cornice above shop fronts, forming base for
giant decorative pilasters. To 1st floor: tripartite window to bays 1 & 8,
single window to bays 2 & 7, 4 regular bays to centre within giant
decorative panelled pilasters. To 2nd floor, plan identical with mask
keystoned arches to central windows and floreate spandrels; apron
panels to all windows. To attic, central mansard with 4 segmental
dormers; segmental dormer to flanks; to outer bays, high pavilion roof
with segmental dormer.
N ELEVATION: blind gable adjoining remaining interior wall of 6 - 14
John Finnie Street (former Operetta House, listed separately).
E (REAR) ELEVATION: ground floor concealed behind former Walker
Stable Building on Strand Street. To 1st & 2nd floors, essentially two 5bay symmetrical adjoined blocks: to outer bays of both floors, large
rectangular windows; to 2nd and 4th bays narrower windows; to central
bay elongated stair window. Differing pair of attic dormers surmounting.
S ELEVATION: adjoining 30 -38 John Finnie Street.
2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to principal elevation, some
12-pane timber sash and case windows to rear; arched sashes to central
windows on 2nd floor. Piended grey slate roof, swept over eaves;
mansard roof to centre of principal elevation, 4 segmental headed
dormers inset; grey slate pavilion roof to outer flanks with segmental
headed dormers; piended grey slate roof to rear, canted attic dormers to
2nd and 4th bay with piended roofs and felted cheeks, plainer squared
dormers to 1st and 3rd attic bays. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods,
concealed gutters to front elevation, down pipes held by cornice above
shop fascia. Stack to N gable now missing due to demolished building
adjacent; tall yellow brick stack to centre of roofline with many yellow
cans; red brick stack to south gable, cans now missing.
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INTERIOR: retail units to right and upper floors derelict, recently fire
damaged. Original floor plan exists to 1st and 2nd floors, also stairs with
larger windows remain to rear.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE
TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie
Street. A McKay, HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1880) p340. 25"/mile
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building. John Malkin,
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p38. Rob Close,
AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE
(1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings, most of
which survive today. In the past, this building housed the Howard De
Walden Photographic Club, William Calderwood & Sons (merchants),
Mrs B Douglas' Tearoom and Daniel Wilson's Chemist shop. The upper
floors were smaller tenement flats lived in by a painter, hairdresser and a
foreman. The building still houses two takeaways, with the rest suffering
from fire damage early in 2001.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
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HB Number 35915
Item Number: 75 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
6 - 14 (EVEN
NUMBERS) JOHN
FINNIE STREET
(FACADE ONLY)
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
J & RS Ingram; Andrew Calderwood, builder; James Rome, joiner. 1874,
opened March 1875. 2-storey, 9-bay symmetrical range (3-3-3 -bay
former Operetta House) with Italian Renaissance detail. Polished red
sandstone ashlar, channelled to ground floor. Blocking course and
cornice.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay central entrance with paired,
engaged Roman Doric doorpiece, door to left, window to right; to 1st
floor, 3 arched windows elaborately detailed with outer paired Corinthian
pilasters and inner engaged columns, floreate spandrels and mask
keystone; apron panels under windows, except central, which has blind
balustrade. Mutule cornice to central bays; blocking course advanced out
over pilasters. To bays 1-3: modern shop facade, now boarded up; 3
regularly placed bays to 1st floor with bracketed cornices and apron
panels, central with triangular pediment; cornice surmounting. To bays 79: to ground floor bays 7 & 8 modern shop facade, now boarded up,
boarded up door to 9th bay; 3 regularly placed bays to 1st floor with
bracketed cornices and apron panels, central with triangular pediment;
cornice surmounting.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: U-plan, comprising coursed rubble rear of
facade and side walls.
Glazing and roofing plans now lost due to fire at end of 20th century.
INTERIOR: no longer in existence after fire.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. BUILDING NEWS (1874, April
17th) p433. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES AROUND KILMARNOCK
(1875) p3. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK
(1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie Street. Francis Groome,
ORDNANCE SURVEY GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, VOL IV (1883)
p373. 25"/mile ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building. Rob
Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL
GUIDE (1994) pp103-105. Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS, OLD
KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
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Notes:
Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. The
foundation stone for this building was laid by John Gilmour Esq. of
Elmbank. Built in the Italian style, the new operetta house sat 1500. The
first leasees of the building were Messers Glover and Francis connected
with the Royal Theatre in Glasgow. The first show to be performed in the
building was "Guy Mannering" by Sir Walter Scott. The building was
erected by a Joint-Stock Company and cost ?7000. The architects,
builders and joiners were all local. James and Robert Ingram designed
the building. Andrew Calderwood, who later worked on the Burns
Monument with Robert Ingram, was the builder. James Rome, the joiner,
had his premises in Waterside Street and also had a hand in constructing
many of the smaller cottage type houses in Kilmarnock. After the
Operetta House ceased to trade it was a church (circa 1930/40) and
latterly a pub and night club. Facade only left after fire destroyed the
building behind.
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Item Number: 65 -
Group with Items: A
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
3-9 (ODD NUMBERS)
JOHN FINNIE
STREET,
KILMARNOCK CLUB
Group Category: A
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
James and Robert S Ingram, 1899; later shop alterations. 2-storey, 4bay, restrained classical symmetrical mixed-use property on triangular
site: shops at ground, Club at 1st floor. Wide canted corner bays; base
course; modern shop fronts to ground; band course at 1st floor;
rusticated pilasters frame central 2 bays at 1st floor; entablature, blocking
course and central segmental pediment with small urns and carving of
Burgh Arms. Red sandstone ashlar; polished ashlar to 1st floor of main
section; red brick to John Dickie Street and Dunlop Street Elevations.
E (JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: modern shop fronts to ground;
4 single windows with architraves and cills at 1st floor; rusticated
pilasters frame central 2 bays; date stone and blind plaque between
central bays; central segmental pediment with balustrading; small urns
crown balustrade ends; central ornament missing; tympanum of
pediment carved with Burgh Arms and 'The Club Kilmarnock'; canted
corner bays with tripartite window at 1st floor; single window on both
returns.
S (JOHN DICKIE STREET) ELEVATION: converted door in 1st bay
(from right) at ground; single window above; single window in 2nd bay;
large tripartite window above; group of 3 windows and door in 3rd bay;
tripartite above; single window in end bay; single window above.
N (DUNLOP STREET - CLUB ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay
elevation: tripartite windows in 1st bay (from left) at ground and 1st
floors; Club entrance in 2nd bay composed of central porch and flanking
lights framed by slim pilasters and broad entablature, crowned by
triangular pediment; 2 single windows above; tripartite windows in 3rd
bay at ground and 1st floors; single windows in 2 end bays.
2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to shop fronts.
Slate roof.
INTERIOR: complete Billiard Room interior to Club.
References:
3rd Edition OS Map, ´0; Dean of Guild Drawings 400-500/453, 400500/483; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - ILLUSTRATED GUIDE, 1992,
p103.
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Notes:
Part of John Finnie Street A-Group. The Kilmarnock Club was designed
as a retreat for the gentlemen of the town. Robert Ingram's design for the
club still survives (his father, James, died in 1879) and shows that the
accommodation included a Billiard Room, Reading Room, Bar, Card
Room, Luncheon Room and a caretaker's flat. The ground floor housed 4
shops and the entrance to the club was on Dunlop Street rather than
from the main thoroughfare. The design of the club forms an integral part
of John Finnie Street, which is an unusually complete surviving example
of late 19th century urban architecture. The plan for the street was drawn
up in 1864 by William Railton and his original proposal still survives in the
Dean of Guild Collection. The street is named after John Finnie who
provided the funds for the development. He was born in Kilmarnock, but
moved to Manchester in the mid-18th century.
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be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HBNUM: 35928
ITEM NO: 90
Group with Items:
Map Ref.: NS
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CAT: B
42689
38248
KILMARNOCK RAILWAY
STATION
Group Cat.:
Date of Listing: 03-JUL-1980
DESCRIPTION:
1878; with later additions and canopies. 2-storeys, diminishing to single storey
at east to accommodate sloping ground; 18-bay by 6-bay, L-plan railway
station with 3-storey, single bay, Italianate tower at SE corner. Coursed red
ashlar sandstone, rusticated at ground, droved to 1st with polished dressings.
Cill band to 1st floor, architraved rectangular windows. Cornice and blocking
course raised over central bays with block pediment.
S (PRINICPAL) ELEVATION: 18-bay elevation on slope, divided 5-8-5.
To left, 2-storey, regularly fenestrated 5-bays. Slightly advanced 2-storey, 8bay central portion with raised block pediment. To right, 4 single storey bays.
Plain parapet concealing roof line. Taller 5th bay with arched window and
prominent keystone forming base of 3-storey tower; band course at springingline. To 2nd storey: arched bipartite window with impost blocks and circular
light above. Band course clasping full height angle margins. Large, circular light
in upper stage; bracketed pediment surmounting. Upper stages identical to
each elevation.
W ELEVATION: blind, lean-to end of principal offices to right divided by
high wall from platform elevation. On right of platform, 2 cast-iron arches with
decorative spandrels resting on stone wall, radial glazing to upper sections of
arches; terminating in decorative cast-iron support pillar to left; large roof truss
spanning all and extending across railway line to rest on matching pillar on next
platform.
N (PLATFORM) ELEVATION: 21 painted cast-iron pillars supporting
projecting cast-iron and glass verandah style roof over platforms. Each pillar:
T-shaped with circular plinth and bowed section leading to partially ringed
shaft; paired arched roof brackets flanking riveted upper section, each with
circular GSWR monogram and scrolled foliate spandrels. 4 pillars to left bays
hold roof beams adjoining high platform wall by means of semi-arched
matching brackets; open section between 4th and 5th bracket. Bays between
brackets 5 to 7 form right return of E elevation: door and window to left bay,
window to right bay; to right return door and window of former booking
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office. In front, double flight of stairs leading from subway with pair of castiron newel piers with pyramid caps and ball finials. Long elevation, extending
length of platform, regularly fenestrated with windows and doors leading into
former refreshment and waiting rooms. Row of 13 plain cast-iron pillars
holding riveted roof trusses, parallel to length of elevation.
E ELEVATION: return of tower to left: arched window with prominent
keystone; band course at springing-line (see S ELEVATION for upper
stages). Single storey, 6-bays to right: windows with margins and drip sills,
paired doors to 2nd and 3rd bays; blind wall adjoining at 90 degree angle at
extreme right.
Mostly 8-pane, double-glazed sash and case windows. Fixed multi-paned
radial arched windows to W end of platforms. Piended grey slate roof to main
station building and tower. Glazed panels to piended roof over platforms,
cast-iron columns, braces and rivets.
INTERIOR: modern underpass leading to platforms; stone steps with
wrought-iron pillars and ball finials at platform exit; screen to original ticket
office remains with bracketed ledge and plaster cornice. Some skirting
boards, plaster cornicing and panelled timber doors remain to former waiting /
refreshment rooms on platform.
REFERENCES:
A. Fullarton & Co, TOPOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL & HISTORICAL
GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND (1851) Vol.II pp123-124. Charles Reid,
PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) showing station.
Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES AROUND KILMARNOCK (?) p3.
Gordon Biddle & O S Nock THE RAILWAY HERITAGE OF BRITAIN
(1983), p135. John Strawhorn & Ken Andrew, DISCOVERING
AYRSHIRE (1988) p194. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF
KILMARNOCK (1989) p8 & 43 for station. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE
AND ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992)
p103.
NOTES:
This "new" station was built as an addition to the 1850 3-storey, 3-bay station
by Hugh Maclure that, until recently, stood to the SW of the main building.
The railway first came to Kilmarnock in 1837 when the Kilmarnock & Ayr
Railway Company was formed, followed by the Glasgow & Dalry Railway
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Company, six years later. The numbers of goods and passengers carried rose
quickly, as its popularity continued on from that of the Duke of Portland's
wagon way. In 1847, the Kilmarnock & Troon wagon-way was bought from
the Duke and converted for the use of passenger steam trains. Within the next
3 years, more lines were opened up with stops at Galston and Newmilns. A
magnificent railway viaduct was constructed from the station, across Portland
and Soulis Streets and spanning the Kilmarnock Water to join land at the
bottom of what became Kay Park. It towered over the older, smaller
properties. The turning point of the station came in 1850. This saw the
completion of the Glasgow and South Western's Nithsdale line. The cross
border track ran between Carlisle and Glasgow and stopped at Kilmarnock.
The original station, which later became known as Kilmarnock Station Goods
Department, was built as a formal entrance to the aggrandised tracks. Before
the end of the century, Glasgow and South Western Railway Company had
opened a workshop and locomotive building shop at nearby Bonnyton. This
survived well into the 20th century before it was taken over as the London,
Midlands and Scottish Railway Works in the 1930's. The works have now
disappeared, replaced by the Bonnyton Industrial Estate. The older railway
station was demolished in the last decade of the 20th century. The remaining
station has undergone substantial refurbishment work, such as repairs to the
iron canopy work, stone cleaning and replacement windows. The railway
station, although situated on a hill, is linked to the major streets of the town by
means of subways. The most ornate route is the John Finnie / West George /
Garden Streets and Langlands Brae subway, which has a castellated entrance
(listed separately).
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to extension; to 1st floor, 3 regularly placed bays with matching attic
dormers. To left, 3-storey and attic, 2-bay elevation: single windows to
basement tripartite windows to ground and 1st floors; central bipartite
window to attic.
S ELEVATION: former blind end concealed behind remaining inner wall
of 6-12 John Finnie Street (former Operetta House, facade listed
separately).
7 and 14-pane timber sash and case windows to principal elevations,
divided 6 and 12-pane upper sashes with 2-pane or single pane lower
sashes. 2-pane timber sash and case windows, horned upper sashes to
rear of building. 2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to older
attic pavilion, upper sashes with segmental arch heads. Later squared,
bipartite, 3-pane flat-roofed timber dormer windows to centre of roof.
Piended grey slate roof, platformed to parts of later attic level; fish scale
detail to former pavilion roof on right hand of W elevation. Aluminium
ridging, flashing and valleys. Stone tripartite wallhead dormer to right of
W elevation; flat roofed timber dormers with shallow aluminium cheeks to
heightened roof and to rear of property. Painted cast-iron rainwater
goods, gutters concealed within eaves cornice. Coursed red sandstone,
roofline stack aligned with former entrance door, plain yellow can.
Smaller gablehead stack to S elevation, cans now missing; similar stack
to rear of former N pavilion roof.
INTERIOR: ground floor modernised to form estate agents and public
house; alterations circa 1920 to upper accommodation and roof; since
modernised, not seen, 2001.
References:
James McKie, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1868) showing
newly constructed John Finnie Street. Archibald Adamson, RAMBLES
AROUND KILMARNOCK (1875) p3. Francis Groome, GAZETTER
(1883) p374. Charles Reid, PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK
(1880) showing "blocks" on John Finnie Street. 25"/mile ORDNANCE
SURVEY MAP (1896) showing building. Dean of Guilds Drawings,
Kilmarnock: 1700-1800/1704 ALTERATIONS TO 1st & 2nd FLOOR OF
THE OSSINGTON HOTEL, JOHN FINNIE STREET (1920, Ingram &
Brown). John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989)
p38. Rob Close, AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED
ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1994) pp103 -105. Frank Beattie, STREETS
AND NEUKS, OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p38.
Notes:
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Part of the John Finnie Street A-Group. John Finnie Street is nearly ?
mile long and was built around 1864. It provided a grand thoroughfare for
the town with the focal point to the north being the railway station.
Business and commerce spread to this street and rows of high quality, 3storey or more, red sandstone building were constructed. The ground
floors were given over to retail, offices and accommodation were above.
The street dominated the lower, narrower streets in Kilmarnock that were
filled with traditional buildings. The street's architect was William Railton,
who went on to design the Kilmarnock Infirmary (now demolished) and
the surveyor was Robert Blackwood. Not long after the street was built,
Archibald Adamson noted the number of handsome buildings. This
building was originally the Ossington Temperance Hotel, built in 1883
for ?3500. It was presented to the town by Lady Ossington, lady of the
manor, as a temperance coffee house. It was entered by the grand door
on John Finnie Street, now the entrance to The Gathering public house.
Originally, there were large stone vases ornaments in the squared plinths
still visible at roof level, these have since been removed. Above the
central window of the John Finnie Street elevation of the estate agents is
a balcony. This originally had a free-standing gold lettered sign
proclaiming OSSINGTON with a stone balustrade to the window behind.
Although the balcony remains, a wrought-iron railing now replaces the
balustrade. The triangular pediment above the central 1st floor window
has been removed to allow an extra window in the former pavilion roof,
which was extended by Ingram and Brown in the 1920's. The building is
prominent at the head of John Finnie Street and is one of the first
buildings to be seen when alighting the train.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35895
Item Number: 45 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: B
10 GRANGE PLACE,
FORMERLY
KILMARNOCK
STANDARD
PRINTING OFFICE
Date of Listing 29-JAN-1979
Description:
Later 19th century; later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 14-bay classical
former printing office. V-plan building occupying gushet site. Channelled
base course; ground floor divided by Ionic pilasters with half fluted shafts;
emphatic entrance door in 4th bay from right; round arched windows to
1st floor, divided by Ionic pilasters; string course; 'Kilmarnock Standard
Printing Office' carved on frieze above; eaves course and blocking
course above. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar.
N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 14-bay elevation; doorway in 4th bay from
right composed of: round-arched doorway with figure-head keystone;
Ionic pilasters supporting broad entablature, crowned with scrolled
pediment and eagle; slender lights flank either side with ovals above;
masks of William Caxton and Johnannes Guthenberg and their
monographs set within ovals. Regular pattern of round-arched
fenestration at 1st floor; modern roof lights at attic.
NE (CORNER) ELEVATION: round-arched architraved doorway with
mask of William Shakespeare as keystone; oriel window above.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: brick elevation; 5 projecting strips divide
elevation; irregular fenestration and door pattern at ground; 14 single
windows at 1st floor; modern roof lights at attic; roof balcony in 4th and
5th bays from left.
References:
2nd Edition OS Map, 1896. A McKay HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK 1879,
pp 218 & 243.
Notes:
B-Group with 11 Grange Place, formerly Wylie's Grain Store. The
Kilmarnock Standard was first printed in 1863 and is the only Kilmarnock
newspaper to remain in print today. The first Kilmarnock periodical, The
Kilmarnock Monthly Magazine, was printed in 1817 but was taken out of
circulation soon after. The first newspaper to be printed was the
Kilmarnock Chronicle, which was first issued in 1831. The design of the
printing office for the Kilmarnock Standard mirrors that of the former
Wylie's Grain Store, which is on the opposite side of Grange Place (see
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separate list description). The masks of Caxton, Guthenberg and
Shakespeare are important figures in the history of printing and the
written word. This property is rumoured to stand on the site of a house
where the American author, Edgar Allan Poe, stayed whilst visiting
relatives as a young boy.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
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HB Number 35899
Item Number: 46 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
6 GRANGE STREET,
THE ARTIST'S
HOUSE
Category: B
Group Category:
Date of Listing 04-AUG-1978
Description:
1818 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay former artist's
house. Asymmetrical main elevation with some classical features: Ionic
doorway, relief panel and Serlian window. Gabled end to right with
Serlian window; pediment detailing with small segmental pediment at
apex. Base course; raised cills; lintels and scrolled brackets; eaves
course; blocking course to left range with central panel, engraved with
figure of reclining female artist, with flanking scrolls. Painted elevation;
painted and raised margins.
W (MAIN) ELEVATION: central entrance doorway, composed of Ionic
pilasters, entablature and cornice; blocked single window in left bay; 2
single windows above at 1st floor; taller 2-storey gable to right with
tripartite window at ground and Serlian window above.
2-pane timber sash and case glazing; 3 and 5-pane to Serlian window.
Slate roof; straight skews; tall brick stack to N gablehead with 4 pots.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
References:
1st Edition O S Map, 1857; T Smellie SKETCHES OF OLD
KILMARNOCK, 1898
Notes:
This house once belonged to the artist James Tannock and his brother
William, who was also a talented painter. James studied painting with the
artist Alexander Nasymth in Edinburgh before heading to London. In the
capital, James benefited greatly from the patronage of another
Kilmarnock son, Sir James Shaw, who was Lord Mayor of London at the
time of James' visit. James later returned to the house on Grange Street,
dying there on 6th May 1863. His brother William died 14 years later. The
house and the brother's gallery later passed into the possession of the
Parochial Board and the Inspector of Poor's office was accommodated
there. The land that the house is built on was conveyed to the family by
the Duchess of Portland.
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of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 35898
Item Number: 43 -
Group with Items:
Map sheet: NS43NW
5-9 (ODD NUMBERS)
GRANGE PLACE
Category: B
Group Category:
Date of Listing 03-JUL-1980
Description:
Later 19th century. 2-storey, 5-bay Italianate office building. Symmetrical
elevation. Base course; band course at 1st floor; panelled pilasters at 1st
floor dividing elevation into 3; eaves course; ball finials at ends; central
balustraded blocking course with ball finials. Red Ballochmyle sandstone
ashlar.
S (MAIN) ELEVATION: deeply recessed doorways in centre and end
bays; tripartite windows in between with chamfered stone transoms. 3
sets of round arched tripartite windows with chamfered stone mullions.
W ELEVATION: adjoining building.
E ELEVATION: adjoining building.
2-pane sash and case glazing. Slate roof; stacks at gable ends.
References:
2nd Edition O S Map, 1856.
Notes:
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digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 26 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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HB Number 35896
Item Number: 44 -
Group with Items: B
Map sheet: NS43NW
Category: B
Group Category: B
Date of Listing 29-SEP-1979
11 - 15 (ODD
NUMBERS) GRANGE
PLACE AND 24 AND
26 (EVEN NUMBERS)
GRANGE STREET,
FORMERLY WYLIE'S
GRAIN STORE
Description:
Later 19th century. 2-storey, 9-bay Italianate former grain store.
Classically inspired elevation with superimposed pilaster order: Doric
pilasters at ground; Ionic pilasters at 1st floor. Base course; broad plinth
band with plain panels below ground floor windows; string courses and
broad band at 1st floor with fluted panels; row of segmental, slightly
recessed niches above 1st floor windows decorated with reliefs of
different cereals and masks of various nationalities; eaves cornice with
dentilled soffits.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: main entrance door in 3rd bay from left
with fanlight; keystone and triangular pediment; plainer doors with
bipartite overlights in 6th and 9th bays; bipartite windows with stone
transoms and mullions in rest of bays at ground. Regular fenestration
pattern at 1st floor; bipartite windows with stone transoms and mullions.
W ELEVATION: 5-bay elevation: pattern of main elevation continues;
plain door with bipartite overlights in 2nd bay from left; modern vehicular
entrance in 4th bay.
References:
2nd Edition OS Map, 1896.
Notes:
B-Group with 10 Grange Place, formerly The Kilmarnock Standard
Printing Office. The carved masks that decorate the upper level of the
property include masks of Native American Indians, Africans and
Caucasians. The cereals represented include wheat, maize and corn.
National symbols, such as the Scottish Thistle and English Rose, are
also represented.
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digital mapping products under Licence No. 100017509 2007 . Data extracted from Scottish Ministers' Statutory List
on 25 October 2007 . Listing applies equally to the whole building or structure at the address set out in bold at the top
of the list entry. This includes both the exterior and the interior, whether or not they are mentioned in the 'Information
Supplementary to the Statutory List'. Listed building consent is required for all internal and external works affecting the
character of the building. The local planning authority is responsible for determining where listed building consent will
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be required and can also advise on issues of extent or "curtilage" of the listing, which may cover items remote from
the main subject of the listing such as boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, ancillary buildings etc. or interior fixtures. All
enquiries relating to proposed works to a listed building or its setting should be addressed to the local planning
authority in the first instance. All other enquiries should be addressed to: Listed Buildings Section, Historic Scotland,
Longmore House, Salisbury Place, EDINBURGH, EH9 1SH. Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8707 / 8720 / 8702 / 8981. Fax: +44
(0)131 668 8722. e-mail: [email protected]. Web: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/.
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