Store, 9-13 Dalmellington Road, Waterside

This building, originally a store built around 1850, is located at 9-13 Dalmellington Road, Waterside. Constructed for the Dalmellington Iron Company, it has undergone subsequent extensions. The original portion is a symmetrical two-storey building with two bays wide and four bays long, with the central two bays projecting forward and featuring chimney gables at both the front and rear. A blind oculus is present in the gablehead at the front. In the later 19th century, the building was extended to the northeast, creating an L-shape. This extension has a three-bay frontage and a four-bay side elevation, mirroring the style of the original building. Both sections have piend-roofed structures covered in Scotch slate, with eight-pane sash and case windows. Chimneys are located on the end walls at the gableheads, as well as on the ridge above the original northeast end wall, originally with stacks linked at the base and topped with a cope. A small single-storey flat-roofed extension was added to the southwest in the later 19th century. This was later incorporated into a larger single-storey flat-roofed extension along the entire frontage, built around 1900 in a Beaux Arts style. This later extension is distinguished by a red sandstone cill band, cornice, and parapet cope.

The principal entrance to the extension has an open pediment with channelled pilasters and features three large windows to the left, two to the right (the latter reduced in depth), a circular window (now rectangular) beyond that, and a smaller entrance on the far right. The southwest corner of the extension is designed as a prominent feature, with flanking channelled pilasters.

The interior of the bar features a simple varnished wooden gantry in a Glasgow style, along with a plain boarded bar.

The building served as a company store for the Dalmellington Ironworks and was later converted into a bar. It is the only surviving store associated with ironworks in Scotland and is particularly noteworthy for its connection to the exceptionally well-preserved remains of the Dalmellington Ironworks and the supporting village. The statutory address for the building is Palace Bar, Waterside Village.