The Clansman, 58, 60, 62 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock

The Clansman, at 58, 60, and 62 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, is a building dated 1889 by Gabriel Andrew. It is a two-storey, symmetrical range of five bays constructed in a Collegiate Gothic style, with an additional bay and an octagonal angle turret on the left side. The main elevations facing John Finnie Street are built with polished red Ballochmyle ashlar, while the rear and the left elevation along College Wynd use white brick with red sandstone dressings. The building features buttresses between the windows and a corbelled parapet, with skew gables displaying moulded skewputts.

The west elevation, facing John Finnie Street, is divided into a five-bay section, with a central round-arched painted door. The ground floor bays are separated by pilasters supporting console brackets. Stepped buttress-piers support the upper floor, which has decorative gabled details below the corbelled parapet and crowning gabled finials. Modern shopfronts occupy the original haunched-headed openings on the ground floor. A corniced string course runs above the ground floor, and a cill course supports the tall, hoodmoulded, mullion and transomed, three-light windows on the upper floor. The central window is a two-light design with a sculptured panel above, rising into the gable head. To the left, a bay incorporates the angle turret, with a three-light window. Bipartite windows are placed in the returns on the first and second floors, with a gable breaking the eaves above the right window. The turret rises above the eaves line, featuring narrow, blind, cusped slits set in panels below the cornice, and a facetted slate roof with a finial.

The north elevation, along College Wynd, shows a four-storey, two-bay brick section, canted to the left. A door and window are on the ground floor, and single windows are on the upper floors. To the right is the gabled return of the John Finnie Street elevation, featuring a narrow window on each floor and bipartite windows on the upper floors, forming the return of the angle turret.

The rear east elevation is a blind brick gable to the right, with the left side concealed behind College Wynd.

The south elevation adjoins 68-70 John Finnie Street.

The building has two-pane timber sash and case windows in the turreted bays and along the College Wynd elevation. Fixed windows on the first floor of the five main bays contain square quarry glass with detailed glass shield centres and coloured diamond details. Later plate glass shop windows are on the ground floor. The roof is covered with piended grey slate, with metal flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are in place, with a gutter concealed behind a low parapet. A coursed red sandstone gablehead stack on the north side has a projecting neck cope and five plain cans.

The ground floor is currently used as a modernised cafe bar, featuring the original central staircase and plaster cornicing on the ceiling. The upper floors were not inspected in 2001.