Kilmarnock Standard, 1 Bank Place, Kilmarnock

This is a two-storey, 1870 building, originally a shop, constructed in the Scots Baronial style on a corner site in Kilmarnock. The building is of coursed ashlar sandstone with dressed hoodmolds, long and short quoins, moulded lintels, stone mullions, and sloped sills. It features crowstepped gables with block skewputts.

The South (principal) elevation originally had a later subdivision of the ground floor. A modern shop front is to the left, while the original "Kilmarnock Standard" shop occupies the centre and right. The central portion features paired doors with a rectangular glazed fanlight above, with harled panels supporting a timber-silled bipartite shop window and timber pilaster mullions surmounted by a timber “Kilmarnock Standard” sign. A moulded band course runs along the elevation. A hoodmoulded bipartite window is on the first floor to the left, and a single hoodmoulded window off-centre to the right leads to the South-East corner. A crowstepped gable is incorporated into the second floor of the adjacent building.

The South-East corner has a harled chamfered angle to the ground floor with a centrally placed metal sign reading "Don't Forget Your Kilmarnock Standard." Above this, a tourelle projects, featuring a bipartite window with a decorative mullion, and a corbelled plaque displaying the date “1870.” The tourelle’s roof is in the shape of a candle snuffer, topped with a decorative metal finial.

The East elevation has a full-length tripartite shop front to the ground floor with a harled panel supporting a timber-silled shop window and timber pilaster mullions surmounted by a timber "Kilmarnock Standard" sign. A moulded band course is present, and a bipartite window is centrally located on the first floor, with a hoodmould above.

The North and West (rear) elevations were not inspected in 2001.

The shop fronts have plate glass timber windows with fixed top hoppers. The first-floor windows are timber sash and case, with one 2-pane upper sash and a single-pane lower sash to one window on the South elevation. The main building has a piended slate roof, while the tourelle has a candle-snuffer roof with fish scale decoration and contrasting light slate bands. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Inside, the ground floor contains a modern shop and reception area related to the "Kilmarnock Standard," with a side staircase leading to refurbished office accommodation above. Original room layouts still exist, and features include a plaster ceiling rose and cornice, and skirting boards in the main office.