34 London Road, Kilmarnock

This is a two-storey, three-bay classical villa, built around 1838. Later additions and alterations were carried out by Thomas Smellie in 1898. The house is rectangular in shape with 19th-century additions to the rear and a single-storey wing. The front elevation is constructed from coursed sandstone ashlar, with the front surfaces harled and painted. A base and band course run along the exterior, while angle pilasters support an eaves cornice. Projecting sills are prominent on the rear elevation.

The main, south-west facing elevation features a central entrance with a pair of timber panelled doors set within an architraved surround. Above the door is a rectangular glazed fanlight, flanked by Doric columns supporting a rectangular, moulded, corniced pediment. A window is located in the left-hand bay, and a two-storey, three-light canted bay window extends to the right. A banded sill course supports a window on the first floor, both to the left and in the central bay. A single-storey rectangular entrance, formerly used by tradesmen and located to the rear, has been in-filled to create a modern garage. A single-storey, single-bay wing projects to the right of the main house, featuring an oeil-de-boeuf window with four prominent keystones and an ornate surround. A projecting sill supports balusters, and an arched, moulded cornice with an oversized keystone and corniced parapet with relief balustrade detail disguises the roofline.

The north-west elevation has a blind gable, with a much later single-storey garage partially concealing the ground floor. A central wallhead stack is present.

The north-east, or rear, elevation is essentially two storeys and three bays. An enclosed timber and glazed porch occupies the centre, with access from the right return. A window is immediately to the right of the porch, with additional windows in the outer bays of the ground floor. A large three-light staircase window is centrally positioned on the first floor.

The south-east elevation’s original design is largely obscured at ground floor level by a single-storey wing with a narrow window to the right and a lower extension with regularly placed paired windows further along. A single window is visible on the first floor of the original house, while a blind wall section, with a central wallhead stack, is part of the late 19th-century extension.

The main house, the rear extension, and the single-storey wing have piended grey slate roofs. Replacement metal ridging and flashing are present. The bay window also has a piended grey slate roof that follows the curve of the bay and extends to the rear roofline. The windows are timber sash and case, with horns on the upper sashes; the central bay on the main elevation has a six-pane window with a heavy timber mullion and upper transom. The oeil-de-boeuf window in the single-storey wing is fixed with 12 panes. The rear staircase window is fixed with nine panes arranged as three long lower lights and six smaller upper lights. Tall, coursed ashlar stacks are topped with projecting corniced neck copes, three tall moulded cans; a later stack to the rear has two cans.

The interior was not inspected during a 2001 survey.