13-15 West George Street, Kilmarnock

Possibly J & RS Ingram, circa 1875. 3-storey, Beaux-Arts gushet office building with octagonal tower roof. Coursed polished ashlar. Rusticated ground floor, pilasters and columns flanking principal windows. Architraved window and door surrounds. Corniced parapet surmounting eaves.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-storey, 4-bay, adjoining canted corner elevation to left. To 4th bay: pilastered surround flanking architraved arched door, bearded mask keystone with carved floriate spandrels, ornate scrolled brackets flanking supporting segmental pediment, window to flanks; giant outer pilasters to full height of building; tripartite window above door to 1st and 2nd floor, scroll bracketed baloconette dividing windows. To bays 1-3, rectangular windows with rusticated pilasters flanking; projecting cornice incorporating upper floor column plinths and rectangular architraved lintels to 1st floor; scroll bracketed balconette dividing windows to 1st and 2nd floor. Full length corniced parapet resting on capitals surmounting.

NW ELEVATION: plainer elevation with 2 regularly placed bays to each floor.

E ELEVATION: canted 4-sided end: arched windows to bays 1, 2 & 4 of ground floor, former architraved doorway, now window to 3rd bay: pilastered surround flanking architraved arched door, bearded mask keystone with carved floreate spandrels, ornate scrolled brackets flanking supporting segmental pediment. 4 regularly placed bays to 1st and 2nd floor, alternate pilaster and column flanking windows; to 1st floor, scrolls supporting rectangular corniced pediments forming sills of upper storey windows; corniced parapet resting on capitals. Octagonal platformed roof with projecting copper cornice surmounting.

2-pane timber sash and case windows, some upper sashes with horns; to ground floor of S elevation 4-pane timber windows, fixed plate glass pane to lower light, 3 horizontally placed panes to upper fixed light; 2-pane arched windows to ground floor end bays. Timber panelled door to entrance, arched multi-paned fanlight surmounting. Piended grey slate roof, partially concealed by parapet; octagonal piended and platformed roof to arched end bay, projecting copper cornice surmounting. Metal ridging, flashings and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter concealed behind parapet, draining into downpipe shared with Expo, the building adjacent. Coursed dressed ashlar stack to E gable, projecting ashlar neck copes and 5 tall octagonal cans; pair of similar smaller wallhead stacks with single can to N.

INTERIOR: now converted to offices: some cornicing, timber skirting boards and panelled door, timber dividers still existing.