43-49 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
43-49 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- graven-finial-acorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 43-49 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 426 379
- Coordinates
- 55.60944, -4.49957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
43-49 John Finnie Street in Kilmarnock is an earlier 20th-century building that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, five-bay structure featuring classical details. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, while the building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar. The ground floor includes channelled piers, and there is a blind balustraded band course at the first floor. The first floor is divided by single and paired engaged Corinthian columns, with a lightly projecting canted central bay. Other features include an entablature, a balustraded parapet, and a blind parapet to the central bay with a raised cornice. There is a pend located on the right side of the building.
On the entrance elevation, the ground floor has a modern shop front with channelled piers. The slightly projecting central canted bay features a tripartite window on the front face and single windows on the side faces, with tripartite windows flanking the centre. An attic box dormer is located on the outer left. The glazing dates from around the 1920s, with opening top hoppers and fixed lower panes. The roof is pitched and covered with slate. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
43-49 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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