64-70 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 July 1980. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

64-70 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock

WRENN ID
high-buttress-spindle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 July 1980
Type
Commercial building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

64-70 John Finnie Street in Kilmarnock is a three-storey, five-bay commercial building, possibly designed by William Railton around 1880. It features Gothic details and has a modern ground floor. The exterior is made of polished red Ballochmyle ashlar. The windows have hoodmoulds and paired designs, with a cill course and bracketed cills on the second floor. The decorative arcaded parapet adds to its character, and the skew gables are topped with squared pyramidal skewputts and cross finials.

On the west elevation, there are later entrance doors on the far left that lead to the first floor. The first bay to the end of the central bay features a door for Victoria Wine, positioned off-centre with windows on either side. Two smaller shop fronts occupy the fourth and fifth bays. The first floor has a moulded cill course, paired pointed-arch windows with roundel detail heads, and a central window with a single light and carved detail in the blind arch head. A string course rises as a hoodmould over the windows. The second floor has bipartite windows in the outer bays, with a central light featuring a single light and a cusped head with a hoodmould. The blind arcaded parapet, adorned with terminal finials, is interrupted by a central gable that has a decorative roundel panel with quatrefoil detail and an apex stack.

The north elevation adjoins 58-62 John Finnie Street, which is listed separately. The east (rear) elevation was not seen in 2001. The south elevation adjoins 72-84 John Finnie Street, also listed separately. The building has two-pane timber sash and case windows with horned upper sashes, while the later shop units have plate glass windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate. The painted cast-iron rainwater goods are concealed behind the decorated parapet. Yellow brick gablehead stacks with projecting stone neck copes are present, with the cans removed from the south stack and a few plain cans remaining on the north stack; there is also a former stack on the central front gable.

The interior has been altered on the ground floor to create modern shop units, while the upper floors were not seen in 2001.

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