22 Portland Road, Kilmarnock

Circa 1855. Pair of semi-detached 2-storey, 2-bay L-plan plain classical dwelling houses. Coursed ashlar, harled and painted. Heavy projecting architraved eaves course. Projecting base course and moulded window margins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: No 22: door to ground floor right, architraved surround and scrolled bracketed canopy terminating in stepped plaque; to left single window with architraved surround and projecting lintel. 2 regularly placed bays to 1st floor; moulded eaves course projecting E beyond line of the building. No 24: as No 22 but ground floor window/door positions reversed, scrolls missing from base of canopy; moulded eaves course projecting W beyond line of building.

E ELEVATION: to extreme right architraved door surround shared with No20 concealing service passage way, blind to rest of elevation broken only at attic level by gutter.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

W ELEVATION: to extreme left architraved door surround shared with No26 concealing service passage way, blind to rest of elevation broken only at attic level by gutter.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to No 22 with replacement fixed plate windows with top hopper to No 24. Piended grey slate roof with aluminium ridge and flashings. Plain stone skewed gables, flashed over to W. Gablehead stacks both missing. Concealed guttering to principal elevation, following side elevation of building with down pipes to rear.

INTERIOR: retaining some original timber features, i.e. skirting boards and doors. Both houses now in use as business premises.