37 Bank Street, Kilmarnock

This is a two-storey corner building on Bank Street, Kilmarnock, constructed in 1902 to a Free Style design by Gabriel Andrew of Andrew & Newlands. It was built for Johnny Walker and Sons. The front and side elevations are faced with dressed Ballochmyle ashlar, while the rear elevations are of yellow stock brick. A deep projecting base course is present.

The principal (south-east) elevation features a doorway in the third bay, framed by hybrid Ancon pilasters with caryatid bust capitals, surmounted by an open-bed segmental pediment containing a rectangular fanlight above double-panelled doors. The other ground floor bays have arched door openings with prominent architraved keystones and alternate rounded and columned quoins resting on a high base course. These openings accommodate central glazed doors with arching panels, and above the fourth bay is a semi-circular three-pane window. Sill courses to the first-floor windows incorporate tripartite windows within Venetian architraved frames to the outer bays, with arched gables having arched stone kneelers above. An attached central stone shaft originally had ball finials. A tripartite window is present in the second bay, and a bipartite window in the third. A projecting moulded cornice runs between the arched gables.

The south-west elevation has a ground-floor arched door surround similar to that on the principal elevation, with a semi-circular three-pane window above. A band course forms the sills of the first-floor windows, with a tripartite window within a Venetian architraved frame leading to another arched gable. A single window is located to the far right. A projecting moulded cornice is present across the remainder of the elevation.

The north-west (rear) elevation partially adjoins the rear of a separately listed building on John Finnie Street. The north-east elevation incorporates red ashlar with long and short quoins into a blind yellow brick gable end, and includes a red brick stack.

Windows consist of rectangular timber frames with single panes of glass in the lower sections and three narrow panes in the upper sections. Newer timber and glazing doors have slightly arched panes to the flanks, and a three-pane timber window sits above the outer doors. The roof is piended, covered with grey slate, and has later terracotta ridge tiles, aluminium flashing, and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, painted to resemble Ballochmyle stone, are concealed behind the ornate cornice. Red brick wallhead stacks are present on the south-west elevation and north-west elevation, with multiple cans and ventilators. A lower stack with no surviving cans is on the north-east, and a further, low, swept stack is to the rear.

The interior includes a stone entrance step leading to an inner hall and staircase. The first-floor offices retain early 20th-century details in the woodwork, surrounds, and cornicing. The ground floor has been more recently refurbished to accommodate two coffee houses and an office, with windows breached to create doors in each bay of the principal elevation and the large arched bay of the south-west elevation.