12 Strand Street, Kilmarnock

12 Strand Street in Kilmarnock is an early 19th-century, two-storey building with an L-shaped plan situated on a corner site. It consists of a shop flanked by two houses. The houses are constructed of random rubble, harled and painted, while the corner shop features coursed ashlar, also harled and painted. All sections of the building have painted ashlar window margins.

The south elevation, which is the principal elevation, includes a two-bay house on the left with a door on the ground floor to the right. There is a large double-width window on the ground floor right, with a blind window above it on the first floor. A fascia for a name divides the two storeys and continues around the corner. The corner features a single window set within an arch and has a low parapet with a raised center.

The east elevation includes the arched corner leading to a low door with paired windows, and a single window in the outer bay on the first floor.

The north and west elevations are not visible as of 2001.

Most of the windows are four-pane timber sash and case, with some on the ground floor and all on the first floor. Iron window guards block the ground floor windows, and the original glazing plan for the main windows has been lost. The south elevation has a partially glazed door, while the east elevation has a boarded door. The roof is piended with grey slate, featuring replacement aluminium ridges and no valleys that abut the gables of former buildings. There are two two-pane cast-iron Carron lights on the south elevation of the roof. The rainwater goods are plain painted cast iron, with gutters tucked under the eaves and down-pipes located at the outer edge of the building, sharing a down-pipe with the adjacent building on Dunlop Street. There is a yellow brick stack on the west side, partially adjoining the gable of a derelict building on Dunlop Street, with four mismatched cans; the north stack has been lowered and all cans are now missing. Additionally, there are two large modern ventilation flues at the rear.

Inside, the building was originally two small houses flanking a shop, accessed through a door in the southeast corner. The fenestration has been altered in the 20th century to accommodate a change of use into a restaurant and bar. There is evidence of a former thatched roof beneath the current slate roof.