Dick Institute, Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 1971. Library and museum. 5 related planning applications.
Dick Institute, Elmbank Avenue, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- iron-kitchen-crimson
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1971
- Type
- Library and museum
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
R S Ingram; 1878-1901; damaged by fire 1909; rebuilt 1910 to designs by Ingram & Brown; reopened 1911. Classical library and museum. Shallow U-plan with portico; 2-storey; 15-bay. Ashlar, channelled to ground. Base course; band course at 1st floor; eaves course; balustraded parapet to roof.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central portico: 4 fluted columns with Tivoli order capitals; 2 fluted pilasters at rear; plain entablature; triangular pediment with Kilmarnock Burgh Arms carved on tympanum; sphinxes adorn the lower apexes of the pediment; whole composition crowned with figure of Minerva, goddess of Wisdom. Regular fenestration at ground floor; windows at 1st floor separated by Corinthian pilasters.
NE ELEVATION: 10-bay elevation; same fenestration as principal elevation; door at 4th bay from right.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: rubble elevation; irregular massing.
SW ELEVATION: 10-bay elevation; doors at 1st and 3rd bays from right.
2-pane sash and case windows at ground floor; 3-pane windows at 1st floor. Slate, piended roof with dome over entrance hall and skylights to rear.
INTERIOR: square stairwell with tiled entrance floor; timber panelled corridor leading to libraries to left and right; art galleries behind; museum space at 1st floor.
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