36-40 Bank Street, Kilmarnock

Gabriel Andrew, 1902. Built for James Smith. 3-bay, 3-storey rectangular-plan Freestyle Renaissance shop and dwelling house. Coursed dressed red Ballochmyle stone; red sandstone skewputts and quoins. Yellow brick to sides, red brick to rear.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: architraved central doorway with pilasters and cyma recta profiles; 6-panelled door with broken pediment surmounting, plain fanlight to rear. Shop fronts flanking with pilasters and cyma recta profiles to outer edges supporting projecting architraved cornice. 3-bay 1st floor: recessed canted bays windows with architraved lintel course and arch detailed centre to outer bays, rectangular window with projecting margins and triangular pediment to centre. 2nd floor: as 1st floor with stylised battlemented tops to bays and projecting timber pedimented gable to centre with wallhead stack to rear.

NE ELEVATION: adjoining gable with 30 Bank Street (listed separately).

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

SW ELEVATION: ground and 1st floor elevations adjoining NW elevation of 42 Bank Street; blind brick 2nd floor elevation and gablehead above.

2-pane timber sash and case windows with horns to most. Bays with 3 or 4 vertically placed panes to upper sash and plate glass to lower sash. Modern PVCu glazing to 2nd floor (2nd and 3rd bays). Piended grey slate roof with oversailing eaves and gablet to front. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Tapered wallhead stack to front with gablehead stacks to sides

INTERIOR: central entrance leading to stone stepped close. Residential floors with some original timberwork, surrounds and some cornicing. Modern shops to ground floor with large plate glass windows.