36-40 Bank Street, Kilmarnock

36-40 Bank Street in Kilmarnock is a three-bay, three-storey shop and dwelling house built in 1902 for James Smith, designed by Gabriel Andrew. The building features a rectangular plan in the Freestyle Renaissance style, constructed from coursed dressed red Ballochmyle stone, with red sandstone skewputts and quoins. The sides are finished in yellow brick, while the rear is made of red brick.

The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, has a central doorway framed by pilasters and a cyma recta profile. The entrance includes a six-panelled door topped with a broken pediment and a plain fanlight. On either side of the door are shop fronts, also with pilasters and cyma recta profiles, supporting a projecting architraved cornice. The first floor features three bays, with recessed canted bay windows that have architraved lintels. The outer bays have detailed arches, while the central bay has a rectangular window with projecting margins and a triangular pediment. The second floor mirrors the first but includes stylised battlemented tops to the bays and a projecting timber pedimented gable at the centre, which has a wallhead stack at the rear.

The northeast elevation adjoins the gable of 30 Bank Street, which is listed separately. The southeast elevation has not been seen since 2001, while the southwest elevation features ground and first-floor sections that connect to the northwest elevation of 42 Bank Street. The second floor has a blind brick elevation and a gablehead above.

Most windows are two-pane timber sash and case with horns, featuring three or four vertically placed panes in the upper sash and plate glass in the lower sash. The second floor has modern PVCu glazing in the second and third bays. The roof is piended with grey slate, oversailing eaves, and a gablet at the front. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are present, along with a tapered wallhead stack at the front and gablehead stacks on the sides.

Inside, the central entrance leads to a stone stepped close. The residential floors retain some original timberwork, surrounds, and cornicing, while the ground floor has been modernized with shops featuring large plate glass windows.