Janitor's House, Kilmarnock Academy, Rennie Street, Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock Academy was designed by R S Ingram and completed in 1898. It is a three-storey Renaissance school building constructed in red Ballochmyle sandstone, with a three-bay symmetrical entrance front.

The principal (west) elevation features a gabled central projection containing a projecting entrance porch with strip pilasters and blocking course. The entrance itself comprises a round-arched doorway crowned with a pediment above, a panelled door, and a fanlight. Single windows flank the entrance on the returns, with quadripartite windows above at the first and second floors. A clock is set in the gablehead, with the Burgh Arms carved above. To either side of the central projection are identical single bays, each with tripartite windows at every floor level; the second floor windows are gabled. A door with single lights above serves the left return, whilst the right return contains single lights.

The north elevation comprises a projecting three-bay range to the left and another to the right. The left range has central bipartite windows at ground and first floors, with a tripartite window at the second floor, and single windows in the end bays at all levels. A 'Girls' entrance is located at the right return. The right range features a two-storey deep recess to the left with a single window above, a tripartite window in the centre of the second floor, two single windows below at first and ground floors, a single window in the right bay of the second floor, and a blind elevation below.

The south (rear) elevation is symmetrical across five bays. The end bays contain single windows at ground and first floors with tripartite windows above at the second floor. The second and fourth bays have bipartite windows at ground and first floors and tripartite windows above at the second floor. The central bay displays a tripartite window at ground level, a pair of bipartite windows at first floor, and a tripartite window at the second floor.

The east elevation comprises six bays: a recessed section of three bays to the left and a projecting section of three bays to the right, the latter incorporating a five-stage tower. The left range contains a blind elevation in the first bay at ground and first floors with a single window above, a tripartite window in the central bay at the second floor with two single windows below, and a two-storey deep recess at the third bay with a single window above at the second floor. The right range features a five-stage tower with single windows at ground, first and second stages and a blind fourth stage, crowned by a tripartite window at the fifth stage and a balustrade. A 'Boys' entrance is located at the left return. Bipartite windows appear in the central bay at ground and first floors with a tripartite window at the second floor, and single windows at all three lower levels in the right bay.

The building is embellished with a base course, string courses and band courses at the first and second floors, two strip pilasters at the ends of the elevations, and gabled dormers to all windows at the second floor. All bipartite and tripartite windows feature stone mullions and transoms. The modern replacement sash and case windows comprise a single pane to the lower sash and nine panes to the upper sash. The roof is slated with straight skews to the gables, and crowned ventilators run along the ridges. A chimney shaft rises from the north elevation.

The Janitor's House is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising three bays with a projecting left bay. It is constructed in red Ballochmyle sandstone on the main elevation and red brick to the side elevations, with quoins. The northwest entrance elevation features a central recessed door, tripartite windows with stone mullions and transoms to left and right, a gabled dormer to the right, and a single window in the gablehead to the left. The southwest elevation is blind. Modern replacement glazing has been installed. The roof is slated with straight skews and block skewputts, and brick coped stacks are positioned at the gableheads.

The boundary comprises squared and snecked rubble walls, with a low wall and railings with piers at intervals to the west, north and south; a brick wall forms the eastern boundary. Cast-iron railings and gates with spearhead finials are hung from rubble plinths with plain shafts and inverted cushion caps.

The interiors were not inspected in 2001.