3 Seaford Street, Kilmarnock

The property at 3 Seaford Street, Kilmarnock is an Italianate villa dating to around 1890. It is a two-storey building, originally three bays wide, with a shallow L-shaped plan. A porch is located in the re-entrant angle, and a single-storey wing extends to the right. Later garages were added adjoining the property to the far right, all contained within a walled garden.

The base course is of bull-faced red Ballochmyle ashlar sandstone. The main east-facing elevation is of polished pink ashlar, while the side elevations are of coursed, pink quarry-faced ashlar. The building features overhanging eaves supported by brackets.

The east elevation has steps leading to a painted, architraved, segmental-arched entrance doorway in the re-entrant angle, sheltered by a piended slate canopy with blocked and bracketed eaves supported on decorated consoles. An arched window is positioned on the first floor above. To the left is a single-storey, three-sided canted bay window with chamfered edges and thin stone sills, topped with a bracketed, three-sided, piended roof featuring ornate painted wrought-iron finial work along the ridgeline, and an arched bipartite window on the first floor. An advanced bay to the right mirrors the ground-floor bay window, with a similar roof and finials, and a tripartite arched window on the upper floor. A single-storey, piended wing is attached to the right, with a single rectangular window and bracketed eaves. To the right, adjoining a rubble wall with plain stone copes, are a door to the rear of the property and two garage doors. A brick wall continues along the north boundary; it’s raised in the centre with a sliding timber door, and has segmental pottery copes to the right section. A timber door is situated to the extreme right. To the left of the main house, a rubble wall with segmental copes has a timber door to the right, adjacent to the house.

The north elevation is partially concealed and has a regularly fenestrated, single-storey wing at ground floor level. The first floor of the main house features segmental-arched windows with slightly projecting sills at each extreme end, with paired wallhead stacks between and bracketed eaves.

The windows are timber sash and case, with two panes, and arched on the first floor. The roof is of grey slate, with aluminium ridging and flashings. Ornate wrought-iron brattishing adorns the piended roofs of the ground floor bays. Stepped, paired, yellow brick wallhead stacks are visible on the north elevation, each with a projecting neck cope and two plain cans. A lower yellow brick stack is present on the south elevation.

The interior was not inspected during a visit in 2001.