12 Strand Street, Kilmarnock

Early 19th century. 2-storey L-plan corner site comprising shop flanked by 2-bay houses. Houses: random rubble, harled and painted; corner shop: coursed ashlar, harled and painted. All with painted ashlar window margins.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay house to left, door to ground right; large double width window to ground floor right with blind 1st floor, fascia for name dividing storeys and continuing around corner. Single window to arched corner, low parapet with raised centre surmounting.

E ELEVATION: arched corner (see S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION) leading to low door with paired windows, single window to outer bay on 1st floor.

N & W (REAR) ELEVATIONS: not seen, 2001.

Mostly 4-pane timber sash and case windows to some ground and all 1st floor fenestration. Iron window guards barring ground floor windows, with glazing plan lost to former main windows. Partially glazed door to S, boarded door to E elevation. Piended grey slate roof with replacement aluminium ridges and no valleys abutting gables of former buildings. Two 2-pane cast-iron Carron lights to S elevation of roof. Plain painted cast-iron rainwater goods: gutters tucked under eaves, down-pipes to outer edge of the building to Strand Street, Dunlop Street elevation sharing adjacent building's down-pipe. Yellow brick stack to W, partially adjoining gable of derelict building (to Dunlop Street), 4 mis-matched cans; lowered stack to N, all cans now missing. 2 large modern ventilation flues to rear.

INTERIOR: originally 2 small houses flanking a shop accessed through a door in the SE corner. Fenestration altered in the 20th century to provide change of usage into a restaurant / bar. Evidence of former thatched roof in place under slates.