47 And 47A London Road, Kilmarnock

This is a two-story, three-bay Gothic Revival villa, dating from approximately 1890. Constructed of bull-faced Ballochmyle red sandstone ashlar to the front elevation, with polished ashlar dressings, and coursed red Ballochmyle rubble to the sides, also with polished ashlar dressings. The building has a group value relating to its aesthetic contribution to the surrounding area.

The north-east (principal) elevation features a central entrance flanked by stepped buttresses forming a door surround, and a fanlight with a 5-light arched hoodmould, a small round plaque to the gablehead, and saw-tooth skews. A hoodmould forms part of a band course, and there is a bipartite lancet window within a shallow gablehead on the first floor above the door. An advanced bay to the right has a bipartite lancet window within a rectangular surround to the ground floor, and hoodmoulded bipartite lancets within an arched surround to the first floor, topped by a moulded square panel with a blind shield detail to the gablehead. To the left, a three-sided canted bay window is present at both storeys, with an architraved segmental-arched bipartite window to the centre, matching single lights to the sides, and a geometric hoodmould to the first-floor window terminating in an engaged ball finial, above a shallow gablehead.

The south-east elevation displays a main gable end to the right with a single window to the ground floor left, continuing with a band course and a blind gable for the remainder of the elevation. A slightly projecting smaller gable adjoining to the left has a hoodmoulded bipartite window with heavy stone transoms and mullions to both storeys, and a canted return to the right with a segmental-arched window to both storeys.

The south-west (rear) elevation was not visible in 2001.

The north-west elevation is irregularly fenestrated with a gablehead stack and a much later single-story porched extension to the ground floor on the right.

Windows on the principal elevation are Tudor arched and divided into two panes with stone transoms. The upper lights have arch or segmental arched timber surrounds containing a panel of square quarry stained glass. Lower lights feature single-pane timber sash and case windows, with vertically pivoting PVCu glazing to all lower lights on the upper storey. Two-pane plain glazing is present to the ground floor side elevation. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate, with terracotta cockscomb ridge tiles and scroll finials to all gable ends. Metal flashing and valleys are present, along with painted cast-iron rainwater goods and cone-shaped hoppers. The eaves overhang and are partially bracketed, featuring plain and crossed arch timber bargeboards to the gableheads, and plain bargeboards to the main gables. Stepped red brick gablehead stacks are present, with a projecting ashlar neck cope and four plain terracotta cans on the east gable, and two on the west gable.

The interior was not visible in 2001.