37 Bank Street, Kilmarnock

Gabriel Andrew of Andrew & Newlands, 1902. Built for Johnny Walker and Sons. 2-storey, 4- and 2-bay Freestyle corner building. Dressed Ballochmyle ashlar facades to principal elevation and side, yellow stock brick to rear elevations. Deep projecting base course; transomed and mullioned windows.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance door to 3rd bay: hybrid ancon pilasters with caryatid bust caps, open-bed segmental pediment surmounting housing rectangular single pane fanlight, 2-leaf panelled doors. To 1st, 2nd and 4th ground floor bays arched door openings with prominent architraved keystone and alternate rounded and columned quoins resting on high base course, central glazed door with arching panel to flanks, at 4th bay 3-pane semi-circular window surmounting, timber in-fill to other bays. Sill courses to 1st floor windows: to outer bays tripartite window within Venetian architraved frame; arched gables with arched stone kneelers above, attached central stone shaft with ball finials now missing; tripartite window to 2nd bay, bipartite window to 3rd bay. Projecting moulded cornice adjoining arched gables.

SW ELEVATION: ground floor arched door surround to left with prominent architraved keystone and alternate rounded and columned quoins resting on high base course, central glazed door with arching panel to flanks, 3-pane semi-circular window surmounting; single window to far right. Band course forming sills of 1st floor windows: tripartite window to left within Venetian architraved frame leading to arched gable with arched stone kneelers, attached central stone shaft terminating in ball finial; single window to far right. Projecting moulded cornice to rest of elevation.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: partially adjoining rear of premises on John Finnie Street (listed separately) to SW.

NE ELEVATION: long and short quoins of red ashlar elevation in-built into left of blind yellow brick gable end, red brick stack.

Single plate glass panes to lower lights of rectangular timber widows, 3 narrow panes to upper lights; slightly arched panes to flanks of newer timber and glazing doors, 3-pane timber window above outer doors. Piended grey slate roof with later terracotta ridge tiles, aluminium flashing and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, painted to resemble Ballochmyle stone, gutters concealed behind ornate cornice. Red brick wallhead stack between bays of SW elevation, single can with later ventilator surmounting; tall red brick stack with 2 pain cans to NW adjoining wider stack of John Finnie Street building; lower longer stack with no surviving cans to NE, further low slightly swept stack to rear of building.

INTERIOR: stone entrance step leading to inner hall and staircase. 1st floor offices with early 20th century details to woodwork, surrounds and some cornicing. Ground floor latterly refurbished to provide 2 coffee- houses and an office, windows breached to form doors in each bay of the principal elevation and large arched bay of SW elevation.