39, 41 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, shop. 1 related planning application.
39, 41 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cinder-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1980
- Type
- Commercial, shop
- Address
- 39, 41 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1BL
- OS grid reference
- NS 426 379
- Coordinates
- 55.60962, -4.49954
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 and 41 John Finnie Street in Kilmarnock is a two-storey, three-bay Italian Gothic building dating from around 1870, with some later alterations. The property is constructed from red Ballochmyle sandstone and features modern shop fronts on the ground floor. The first floor showcases a distinctive design divided by pilasters topped with facetted finials, with a higher central bay that has a gablehead. The windows have bracketed cills, and there is a mock machicolated cornice.
On the entrance elevation, the ground floor has modern shop fronts, while the first floor is highlighted by a central gable that contains a quadripartite window with stone mullions and transoms. Above this window, a hoodmould rises to a central star that encloses a plaque, with a crowstepped gable above featuring a central arched light and hoodmould, topped with a fleur-de-lys finial at the apex. The end bays have tripartite windows with pointed-arched architraves and hoodmoulds that enclose carved hatching.
The first floor has 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is slate with straight skews and short, corniced brick stacks at the gableheads. The interior was not seen in 2001.
Local climate
39, 41 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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