37 Portland Road, Kilmarnock

Circa 1870. Single storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan Italianate house with lower recessed single bay flanking wings. Coursed red Ballochmyle dressed sandstone ashlar; rendered sides tooled to resemble ashlar and painted harled wing returns. Base course, projecting rusticated angle quoins.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central door in shallow projection with round-arched pilastered doorpiece with cornice, scrolled panel with laurel wreath above; panelled door; steeply pitched gable with blank shield detail, simple bargeboards and finial; slightly advanced round-arched pilastered and panelled bipartite windows in outer bays, with deep eaves above. Flanking wings: single round-arched window in architraved surround, finialled shaped gableheads surmounting.

W ELEVATION: single storey, regularly fenestrated side wing.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001

E ELEVATION: single storey, 4 single windows from left to middle, bipartite window to right; ashlar wall forming vehicle entrance adjoining wing to extreme left.

2-pane arched timber sash and case windows to principal elevation. Replacement 2-pane modern glazing to sides of wings. Pitched grey slate roof with lead ridges, zinc valleys and flashing. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods with gutters concealed behind bargeboards. Yellow brick stacks with projecting ashlar neck copes and ornate yellow cans.

INTERIOR: former residence, remodelled to provide office accommodation, retaining original timberwork to entrance hall, original fanlight and semi-glazed panelled door. Cornices and skirting boards remain to some rooms.