The Clansman, 58, 60, 62 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

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

WRENN ID
winding-bonework-cream
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 July 1980
Type
Commercial
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Gabriel Andrew, dated 1889. 2-storey, 5-bay symmetrical collegiate gothic range with additional bay and octagonal angle turret at left. . Polished red Ballochmyle ashlar to principal elevations, white brick with red sandstone dressings to rear and left of College Wynd elevation. Buttressed between windows, corbelled parapet. Skew gabled with moulded skewputts.

W (PRINCIPAL, JOHN FINNIE STREET) ELEVATION: to centre and right, 5-bay section: painted central round-arched door. Ground floor bays divided by pilasters supporting console brackets. Stepped buttress-piers to the upper floor, with decorative gabled details below corbelled parapet, crowning gabled finials. Modern shopfronts in original haunched-headed openings to ground floor. Cornice and strings above. Cill course to tall upper, hoodmoulded, mullion and transomed, 3-light windows; central window 2-light with sculptured panel above, rising into gable head. To left bay and corner and right bay of left return: 3-light angle turret bay boldly canted above ground floor angle pedestal; bipartite window to adjoining bay in each 1st and 2nd floor return, gable breaking eaves above right window; turret rising to octagon above eaves line with narrow, blind, cusped slits set in panels below cornice and facetted and finialled slate roof.

N ELEVATION (COLLEGE WYND): canted to left, 4-storey, 2-bay brick section: door and window to ground floor, to upper floors left, single window, to ?-storeys of upper floors, single window. To right, gabled return of John Finnie Street elevation: narrow window to left of each floor, bipartite windows to upper floors forming return of angle turret to right.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: blind brick gable to right of rear, left of elevation concealed behind College Wynd.

S ELEVATION: adjoining 68-70 (evens) John Finnie Street.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to turreted bays and College Wynd elevation. Fixed windows to 5-bays of 1st floor: square quarry with detailed glass shield centres and coloured diamonds to angles. Later plate glass shop windows to ground floor. Piended grey slate roof, some metal flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter concealed behind low parapet. Coursed red sandstone gablehead stack to N with projecting neck cope and 5 plain cans.

INTERIOR: ground floor currently in use as a modernised cafe bar; original central stair case still in existence, plaster cornicing to ceiling; upper floors: not seen, 2001.

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