42 Bank Street, Kilmarnock

Gabriel Andrew of Andrew & Newlands, 1902. Built for Mackintosh and Bain. Two-storey, three-bay rectangular freestyle Renaissance office building with first floor bay domed tower leading to higher rear gable. Dressed red Ballochmyle stone to front with coursed red sandstone to sides and rear. Dressed red sandstone ashlar door surround, cills and band course. Scrolled and beaked putts.

Northwest (principal) elevation: three stone steps leading to central door surround. Deep base course, inset Ionic columns supporting architraved scrolled brackets, broken swept ogee pediment with engaged ogee pilaster between; timber door with separate four-pane fanlight surmounting. Tripartite window to flanking bays, cills curved into base course, full-height central window, projecting architraved transoms breaking outer windows. Paired architraved band courses with swept chamfer between to right corner, upper course forming sills of first floor windows, paired windows to left. Arched window in central recess with alternate rounded and columned quoins, single window to right, three-light canted bay to corner tower with alternate rounded and columned quoins flanking. Paired band courses above, over-sailing slated dome, wrought-iron decorative weathervane surmounting.

Northeast elevation: adjoining brick gable wall of 36 - 40 Bank Street (listed separately, LB48708).

Southeast (rear) elevation: not seen, 2001. Within private car park.

Southwest elevation: coursed rubble boundary wall of Bank of Scotland (No. 46) concealing most of ground floor elevation, polished sandstone with band course and side of bay, domed tower to first storey left, coursed red sandstone to remainder and gablehead. Plate glass windows divided by stone mullions and astragals to ground floor. Replacement PVCu glazing to upper storey. Piended grey slate roof with overhanging eaves. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Stone base leading to brick stack with projecting neck cope and four plain cans.

INTERIOR: office spaces refurbished, stone staircase to centre. Original skirting boards, some interior timber doors and plaster cornices.