18 Portland Road, Kilmarnock

Circa 1855. Pair of semi-detached 2-storey, 2-bay L-plan plain classical houses. Coursed ashlar, harled and painted. Heavy projecting architraved eaves course. Projecting base course and moulded window margins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: No 18: door to ground floor right, architraved surround and scroll bracketed canopy terminating in stepped plaque; to left single window with architraved surround and projecting lintel. 2 regularly placed bays to 1st floor; moulded eaves course projecting E beyond line of building. No 20: as No 18 but ground floor window / door position reversed; moulded eaves course projecting W beyond line of building.

E ELEVATION: adjoining lower terrace (No 10 - 16).

S (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

W ELEVATION: architraved door surround leading to adjoining house and service passage way to extreme left of ground floor, blind to rest of elevation broken only at attic level by gutter.

Later 2-pane replacement glazing to No 18 with 2-pane timber sash and case windows to No 20. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridge and flashings, cast-iron 2-pane Carron light to left of centre near ridge. Brick gablehead stack and skews shared with lower terrace to E, stack and skews to W gable missing. Concealed guttering to front elevation, following side elevation of building with down pipes to rear.

INTERIOR: retaining some original timber features, i.e. skirting boards and doors. No 18 now in use as business premises.