Bank Of Scotland, 55, 57 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock

Probably Gabriel Andrew, circa 1890. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay by 3-bay Flemish Renaissance office and commercial building. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar; polished granite ground floor with ashlar arches surmounting. Band, lintel and sill courses; mock parapet with pedimented attic windows.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: arched door surrounds to extremes of outer bays, each with 2-leaf timber panelled doors and semi-circular fanlights, architraved arched surround surmounting leading into band course; granite below. 3 slightly recessed arched windows to central bay, pilasters between. 1st and attic floors with 2-storey, 3 & 4-light canted oriel windows to outer bays with triangular pedimented gableheads. Bipartite window to central bay of 1st and attic floors, similarly gabled head to attic.

S ELEVATION: adjoining much lower, late 20th century, 3-storey retail and office premises; blind 1st floor with central wallhead stack.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: adjoining to ground floor: much lower, late 20th century, flat-roofed office building.

N (WOODSTOCK STREET) ELEVATION: 4 semi-circular arched windows to ground floor; 3 pilastered and transomed window to each floor above; architraved triangular pedimented gableheads to attic windows.

Steeply pitched, piended grey slate roof, lead ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, concealed gutter to projecting cornice of attic storey, down pipes held within cornicing disappearing to centre of ground floor. Coursed red ashlar wallhead stack with projecting moulded neck copes to centre of S elevation, stack to centre of N elevation now removed.

INTERIOR: remodelled 1988, now forming modern building society to ground floor, office accommodation above. 2-leaf timber panelled doors to John Finnie Street doorways, leading to partially glazed inner door with heavy squared fanlight of square quarry surmounting. Some timber work surviving, skirting boards etc. Some plaster cornicing to upper offices.