Seed Store, 5-7 St Marnock Place, Kilmarnock

The Seed Store, located at 5-7 St Marnock Place, Kilmarnock, was constructed around 1895 as a two-story office and warehouse with an attic and basement. It has a six-bay width and three-bay depth. The front and rear facades are constructed of red Ballochmyle polished ashlar, featuring band and eaves courses and long and short quoins. The principal elevation’s first floor is faced with bull-faced ashlar, while the basement, adjacent to the riverbank, is of weathered red bull-faced ashlar. Yellow brick forms the sides of the building.

The south (principal) elevation features a central timber-panelled door with a single-pane rectangular fanlight. Brackets support a segmental pediment above the doorway, and tripartite windows flank the entrance, with projecting drip sills, moulded upper arrises, and flush lintels. Outer brackets are located on the band course. Above, the first floor has three regularly placed architraved windows, each with a conjoined segmental hoodmould and a recessed panel above. A projecting eaves cornice runs along the top. A central stone dormer projects from the attic roof, featuring a pilastered, architraved surround supporting a triangular pediment.

The west elevation has a later door in the first bay on the ground floor. Bays two and three have rectangular windows with fabric awnings and flanking advertising boards. The fourth bay originally contained a vehicle entrance, now filled in with an archway and awning above the entrance door. A smaller timber door is to the right, adjacent to a rectangular window with a small window next to it, and the sixth bay is blind. The first floor of the west elevation has rectangular windows, stone sills and lintels, and a lintel course, with recessed blind brick arches above.

The rear (north) elevation was not inspected in 2001. The east elevation is slightly projecting and features a rusticated basement with six regularly spaced bays. The ground floor has a blind bay, a bipartite window with a stone sill and mullion in the second bay, and four regularly placed rectangular windows with projecting stone sills in bays three to six, with fabric awnings to three bays on the right. The first floor has rectangular windows with stone sills, lintels, and a lintel course, with recessed blind brick arches above the windows.

Ten-pane lying-pane timber sash and case windows are located on the first floor of the east and west elevations. Two-pane timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes are found on the south elevation and the ground floor left of the east elevation. Replacement two-pane PVCu windows have been installed on the basement of the east elevation. The roof is piended grey slate with metal ridging and flashing. The attic dormer also has a piended grey slate roof with slated cheeks. The rainwater goods are painted cast-iron, with the gutter concealed by the eaves cornice, and downpipes run along the side elevations. An inverted T-plan brick wallhead stack is located to the left of the east gable, with red sandstone dressings at 90-degree angles, a projecting ashlar neck cope, and four plain cans. A gablehead stack on the north elevation has a projecting ashlar neck cope and five plain cans.

The interior is divided into office accommodation at the front of the building and a pub/restaurant at the rear.