14 London Road, Kilmarnock

14 London Road, Kilmarnock

A Gothic villa of circa 1840, later altered and extended. The building is 2 storeys with an attic and basement to the rear, arranged as an asymmetrical composition with single-storey flanking wings. The principal elevation displays painted stugged ashlar, while the sides and rear are finished in coursed sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. A roll-moulded base course runs across the front. Finialled gables punctuate the skyline.

The south-facing principal elevation features a projecting piended porch set within a re-entrant angle bay, with pilasters supporting a bracketed decorative frieze and triangular pediment; an architraved window sits above on the first floor. To the right stands a canted bay window with decorative parapet, partially concealing the sill of the first-floor architraved window, and topped with a hood-moulded wallhead gable and ball and spike finial. An advanced gabled bay to the left contains a canted bay window with decorative parapet and a hood-moulded bipartite window above on the first floor, crowned with a ball and spike finial to the gablehead. The single-storey wing to the left of the main house displays a tall tripartite window in a shallow advanced gabled bay. The single-storey wing to the right features three regularly placed architraved windows with niches between them, added in the later 19th century. To the right of this wing stands a later outhouse addition with a door, and further adjoining is an older "toll house" building.

The west elevation shows the blind gable of the main house with the side of the painted extended bay. The single-storey wing adjoins here with its blind gable at ground floor level.

The north rear elevation is irregularly fenestrated at basement level. A door is positioned off-centre right at raised ground floor level, accessed by a flight of ashlar steps with metal handrail and stone entrance plat; windows flank this door in the outer bays. An elongated staircase window rises to the first floor, with paired windows to the left and a single window to the right. Dormers occupy the outer bays of the attic. To the left of the main house, the rear elevation of the adjoined wing has a central window at raised ground floor level. The rear elevation of the outhouse wing to the left features a central tripartite window at raised ground floor level, with the blind rear of the tollhouse adjoining further left. The rear elevation of the adjoined wing to the right of the main house has a central window at raised ground floor level.

The east elevation displays three stepped gables adjoining the main house. The main house to the rear has windows to the outer bays of the first floor, with the window to the left now blind and partially concealed by the gable of the painted lower wing. A smaller outhouse gable adjoins the painted wing gable, with the former "toll house" gable beyond.

Windows throughout are predominantly 5- and 10-pane lying-pane timber sash and case windows on the principal and side elevations. Some 2-pane timber sash and case windows serve the attic bays and rear of the east wing. The north staircase window features glazed margins. The roof is piended grey slate with aluminium ridging, flashings and valleys. A pair of piended timber attic dormers with slated cheeks crowns the main house. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods include gutters set within the cornice and downpipes concealed in angles. Corbelled wide gablehead stacks rise from the main house with four pyramidal neck copes and inset cans. Smaller wide gablehead stacks serve the ends of the single-storey wings, each with an inset plain can. Paired ashlar gablehead stacks sit at the east gable of the outhouse addition.

The interior includes a timber-panelled entrance door leading to a semi-glazed inner hall door.

A low painted ashlar boundary wall runs along the front of the property, with remains of former wrought-iron railings visible within its 2-course structure. Two pairs of much-lowered gatepiers with moulded pyramidal caps stand at the entrance, with a further lowered pier at the angle of the boundary wall with No. 12, topped by a pyramidal cushion cap. A brick boundary wall borders the east side of the property.