Hall, Winton Place Congregational Church, Dundonald Road, Kilmarnock

Winton Place Congregational Church, built in 1860 by James Ingram, is an Early English Gothic style church of rectangular plan, accompanied by a single-story hall added in 1891 to the rear, creating a T-shaped layout. The church is constructed from stugged yellow ashlar stone with polished dressings, featuring base and cill courses, and stepped and angle buttresses. The hall is a combination of sandstone and white brick.

The east (principal) elevation has five stone steps leading to a recessed, two-leaf timber door set beneath a pointed arch with moulded reveals and nook shafts. An outer hoodmould with mask label stops frames the doorway, flanked by notice boards. Above the door is a four-light moulded arch window, and a pointed trefoil window tops the gable, with remnants of a stone cross finial. Semi-octagonal piers flank the door and rise to form pinnacles above the gable coping. Lancet windows are on the flanks, accentuated by stepped angle buttresses.

The south elevation displays six regularly spaced bays, with a pointed door and short lancet window above in the sixth bay. The remaining bays feature long lancets with sloping cills and cill courses, separated by stepped skewed buttresses and angle buttresses.

The west (rear) elevation is a gable-end with a chimney adjoining the single-story hall. The north elevation mirrors the south, featuring a pointed door with a moulded surround and a short lancet window above the first bay, along with long lancets and stepped buttresses.

Most windows have diamond quarry lights with squared coloured borders and sloping sills. The church roof is piended grey slate with bands of fish scale detail, while the hall has a plain grey slate, piended roof. Rainwater goods are partially concealed, and a stepped stone stack with two short cans rises from the west gablehead of the church.

The interior was not inspected in 2001.

The single-story U-plan hall adjoins the west elevation of the church. It features an ashlar frontage with brick sides and rear, with projecting moulded skews and kneelers on the gable ends. A rectangular, gable-ended structure is centrally placed against the church, with a window in the right return. A larger U-plan hall surrounds this, with three-light windows in each gable end. A small lean-to porch is located in the right re-entrant angle, featuring an east-facing timber door with a small rectangular fanlight above. A single-story store projects from the left re-entrant angle. The hall is regularly fenestrated on all returns and the rear, and a small lean-to store/boiler room is located on the front of the right return.

Low, coursed ashlar boundary walls have pyramidal coping. A pair of square gatepiers with pyramidal caps support wrought-iron railings that match the style of the stone walls.