Lauder's Emporium, 45-55 King Street, Kilmarnock is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Commercial property. 2 related planning applications.
Lauder's Emporium, 45-55 King Street, Kilmarnock
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pinnacle-reed
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Commercial property
- Address
- Lauder's Emporium, 45-55 King Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 1PT
- OS grid reference
- NS 428 378
- Coordinates
- 55.60896, -4.49711
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lauder's Emporium, located at 45-55 King Street in Kilmarnock, is a three-storey, seven-bay commercial property built in 1923, showcasing an inter-war classical style. The ground floor features a modern shop front, while the upper floors are characterized by superimposed banded rusticated strip pilasters with blind cartouches at the ends. The central section has plain strip pilasters adorned with floral wreath carvings, and there is a band course at the first floor level. The building is topped with a cornice, overhanging eaves featuring medallions, and a stepped central pediment.
The main elevation is divided into three primary bays by strip pilasters. Each outer bay contains four windows—two on the first floor and two above—with a broad cast-iron band between them. The central bay has six windows arranged in the same pattern. This window pattern continues for one bay on the left return. The west elevation features a five-bay brick extension, while the north and south elevations are adjoining buildings.
Local climate
Lauder's Emporium, 45-55 King 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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