1 Walker Avenue, Kilmarnock

Gabriel Andrew, circa 1895. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular Free Style villa, bay window with canted gabled roof; adjoining recessed single storey porch to left. Coursed droved red Ballochmyle ashlar to principal elevation. Rusticated, red ashlar long and short quoins; dressed red ashlar door surround, window sills and bay window. Base course. Oversailing eaves with plain bargeboards to gable ends.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central entrance door: advanced plinths with ball finials, pilasters with winged angel capitals, geometric brackets supporting arched and corniced pediment; inner arched door surround with alternate round and columned quoins. To left, bipartite window; to right, 2-storey, 3-sided corniced, canted bay window, timber, canted piended roof gable surmounting. To central bay of 1st floor, single window with projecting sill, to left, bipartite bay with projecting sill. Blocked timber eaves. Adjoining to left, single storey porch (see S ELEVATION).

S ELEVATION: gable end with single storey porch: to ground floor left, porch with window to right on original elevation, extension to left with higher window; central door to S elevation. Gable end of main building, central window to 1st floor.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

N ELEVATION: gable end with raised terrace at ground floor

Replacement metal 2-pane double-glazed windows. Original timber panelled entrance door, later faux panelled door to porch. Shallow piended grey slate roof, metal ridging, flashings and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, principal gutter attached to blocked eaves. Red brick gablehead stacks with plain cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2001.

BOUNDARY WALLS: to E, low red rock-faced ashlar walls, chamfered piended copes; plain wrought-iron railings with scrolled panels and floriate finials. Entrance to SE of property: flanking drive, wing walls shaped like matching halves of a segmental pediment; red rock-faced ashlar wing walls with polished ashlar long and short quoins