Boundary Wall And Gatepiers, Dunbeath, 44 London Road, Kilmarnock

The building is a Gothic Revival villa located at 44 London Road, Kilmarnock, possibly designed by Alexander Adamson around 1875, with later additions and alterations by RS Ingram in 1927. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure in a shallow L-plan, featuring a lower gabled extension on the right. The exterior is made of squared coursed sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, and includes gabled skewputts and stone and wrought-iron dormer head finials. The property is complemented by ashlar gatepiers and coursed rubble boundary walls.

On the southwest elevation, there is a slightly advanced central entrance bay with an open porch at the ground floor. This porch features moulded plinths with polished red granite columns, arched stone brackets with shield stops, and an arched stone canopy with a slated roof and wrought-iron finials. The entrance has a later timber and glazed door. To the right of the porch, there is an engaged skewed buttress, paired lancet windows above on the first floor, and an arrowslit window in the gablehead. The right bay has a hoodmoulded window at the ground floor, a drip course, and an arrowslit stone gablehead window above. The advanced gabled left bay features a two-storey canted bay window with three lights on each floor and a corniced battlemented parapet with an inset plaque, along with a hoodmoulded arrowslit window in the gablehead.

The northwest elevation has two windows to the left at the ground floor, while the rest of the elevation is blind. The northeast elevation was not seen in 2001. The southeast elevation shows the side of a smaller one-and-a-half-storey gabled extension that abuts the extension of No. 46, with a blind gablehead on the first floor.

The villa has replacement two-pane PVCu double-glazed windows, smaller hinged hoppers with fixed lower panes, and a piended grey slate roof for both the main house and the extension. There are also replacement metal ridging, valleys, and flashings, along with wrought-iron finials on the dormer heads. The gablehead stack is made of coursed ashlar with a moulded neck cope and three cans, similar to the stack at the rear.

The interior was not seen in 2001. The boundary walls consist of a stepped coursed sandstone rubble wall topped with semi-circular ashlar copes, and the squared coursed ashlar gate piers have pyramidal caps at the entrance. A large squared panelled pier at the boundary and road end angle features an architraved cushioned cap with a slight finial.