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

Possibly Alexander Adamson, circa 1875; later additions and alterations RS Ingram, 1927. 2-storey, 3-bay shallow L-plan Gothic Revival villa with lower gabled extension to right. Squared coursed sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. Gabled skewputts. Stone and wrought-iron dormer head finials. Ashlar gatepiers with coursed rubble walls.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced central entrance bay with open porch to ground floor: moulded plinths with annuleted polished red granite columns, arched stone brackets with shield stops supporting arched stone canopy porch with slated roof and wrought-iron finials, later timber / glazed door; engaged skewed buttress on right of porch; paired lancet windows above to 1st floor, arrowslit to gablehead. To right bay, hoodmoulded window to ground floor, drip course, window to 1st floor, arrowslit stone gablehead. To advanced gabled left bay, 2-storey canted bay window with 3-lights to each floor, corniced battlemented parapet surmounting with inset plaque; hoodmoulded arrowslit window to gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: 2 windows to left of ground floor, rest of elevation blind.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

SE ELEVATION: side of 1?-storey smaller gabled extension abutting extension of No.46, blind gablehead to 1st floor.

Replacement 2-pane PVCu double-glazed windows, smaller hinged hoppers with fixed lower pane. Piended grey slate roof to main house and extension. Replacement metal ridging, valleys and flashings. Wrought-iron finials to dormer heads. Coursed ashlar gablehead stack with moulded neck cope, 3 cans, similar stack to rear.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2001.

BOUNDARY WALLS & GATE PIERS: stepped coursed sandstone rubble wall with semi-circular ashlar copes; squared coursed ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps to entrance front. Large squared panelled pier to boundary / road end angle, architraved cushioned cap with slight finial.