64-70 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock

Possibly William Railton, circa 1880. 3-storey, 5-bay commercial building with Gothic details and modern ground floor. Polished red Ballochmyle ashlar. Hoodmoulded paired windows with course cill. Cill course and bracketed cills to 2nd floor. Decorative arcaded parapet. Skew gabled with squared pyramidal skewputts with cross finials.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: later entrance doors to far left leading to 1st floor; from ? of 1st bay to end of central bay Victoria Wine, door off centre left with windows to flanks. 2 smaller shop fronts spanning 4th and 5th bays. To 1st floor: moulded cill course; paired pointed-arch windows with roundel detail heads; central window single light with rows of carved detail to blind arch head; string at springing rising as hoodmould over windows. Cill course and bracketed cills to 2nd floor outer bay bipartites, central light again single light with cusped head and hoodmould. Blind arcaded parapet, with terminal finials, broken by central gable with decorative roundel panel with quatrefoil detail and apex stack.

N ELEVATION: adjoining 58 - 62 John Finnie Street (listed separately).

E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

S ELEVATION: adjoining 72 - 84 John Finnie Street (listed separately).

2-pane timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes; plate glass windows to later shop units. Piended grey slate roof. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, gutters concealed behind decorated parapet. Yellow brick gablehead stacks with projecting stone neck copes adjoining those of adjacent buildings, cans removed to S stack, a few plain cans remaining to N stack; former stack to central front gable.

INTERIOR: ground floor altered to form modern shop units. Upper floors not seen, 2001.