Borland's Seed Warehouse, 3 St Marnock Place, Kilmarnock

1850, with 1858 extension. 2-storey with attic and basement, 4-bay by 13-bay former seed warehouse with classical details, 11-bay to river with adjoining single storey boiler house (brick chimney removed, circa 1975). Painted ashlar with polished ashlar margins. Rubble basement beneath band course to E (Kilmarnock Water) elevation. Lightly colour washed stuccoed ashlar to S elevation. Projecting sills to most windows. Skewputts and scroll finial to N.

S (ST MARNOCK STREET) ELEVATION: later pilastered shop front to ground floor, 6 irregular width bays with door in 2nd left; chamfered angles. Double string courses at 1st floor, the upper forming sill course of 4 regularly placed architraved windows; scrolled, moulded detail to outer of end bays and to centre; curved rusticated quoins terminating in moulded scroll below prominent eaves cornice.

W (ST MARNOCK PLACE) ELEVATION: 13-bay elevation with pend / loading bay, originally on N elevation before 1858 extension. Chamfered jambs and moulded flat arch with keystone to pend. 2 plain doors, now entrances to pub and cafe. 2' overhanging cornice and blocking course.

N ELEVATION: additional single storey boiler house with pair of windows set at angle to main elevation; canted brick stump of stack to NW with large ashlar dressings. To 1st floor of main building, central window; paired windows to gablehead.

E (KILMARNOCK WATER) ELEVATION: 11 irregularly placed bays to ground and 1st floors, bracketed cornices to bays 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of ground floor. Painted advertising fascia dividing full length of upper storeys.

To St Marnock Street elevation and 1st 2-bays of E elevation, 7-pane timber sash and case windows, with 6-pane upper sash and plate glass lower sash; modern plate glass windows to ground floor shop windows. To E elevation: 24-pane timber windows with 12-panes per sash; some sash and case windows, some pivoting top mock sash with ventilation bars to lower casement window; metal framed, multi-paned bipartite windows to basement. Combination of cast-iron Carron lights and modern velux roof lights to attic. Shallow piended grey slate roof, gabled to N. Aluminium ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: original elements remaining, but refurbished to provide restaurant and accommodation. Cast-iron stanchions bearing timber beams, some single span across about 42' width of building. Stone steps to basement. Slightly curved rectangular stairs to former office end. Main storage area now subdivided to form Copperfield's Inn and the Artful Dodger pub and restaurant.