71 London Road, Kilmarnock

71 London Road in Kilmarnock is a plain classical villa built around 1840. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular structure featuring a later Greek Doric portico. The front is finished in painted ashlar, while the sides are made of coursed sandstone rubble. The building has angle pilasters that support a plinth and a moulded cornice, along with a base course and a sill band.

The principal elevation on the northeast side has a stepped plinth leading to the central Greek Doric portico, which is supported by a pair of Doric columns that hold up a plain lintel, frieze, and architraved cornice. At the rear of the portico, engaged pilasters from an earlier door surround mirror the columns and support the portico. There is a two-leaf timber panelled entrance door flanked by a single window. A sill course runs along this elevation, which also features three evenly spaced bays on the first floor.

The southeast and northwest elevations have a blind gable with a central wallhead stack, and the ground floor is partially hidden by an adjoining wall.

The southwest (rear) elevation was not visible in 2001. The villa has replacement two-pane, double-glazed timber sash and case windows. Its roof is piended with grey slate, featuring metal ridging and flashing, and a small ventilation pipe at the central eaves level of the main elevation. The rainwater goods are made of painted cast iron, with concealed cornice gutters and downpipes located in the re-entrant angle of the left angle pilaster and on the side elevations. The side elevations also have yellow brick central wallhead stacks with thin stone neck copes and four tall hexagonal cans on each stack, although one is missing from the northwest elevation.

The interior was not seen in 2001.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of coursed sandstone rubble side walls, with a low, coursed ashlar central wall at the front that has drive entrances on either side, flanked by a matching curved wall at the corner of London Road and Nursery Avenue, all topped with segmental stone coping. There are two gatepiers made of tall, squared ashlar with panelled sections, featuring a base and neck course and terminating in a moulded flat cap. One gatepier is located at the boundary with No. 73, which is listed separately, while the other is at the junction of the side and curved front wall on Nursery Avenue.