Blackwood The Butcher, 32, 34 Main Street, Beith

Circa 1840, altered 1910 (see Notes). 3 bays, 2 storeys and attic with butchers' shop to ground floor. Timber 2-leaf panelled door (to shop) with 2-pane hopper-type fanlight; large central shop window with small window to R; timber flush panelled door to L (to flat) with 2-pane letterbox fanlight above. Continuous shop fascia between ground and 1st floors, with moulded cornice above. 3 windows to 1st floor; 2 later piended dormers to attic. Rendered stone with stop-chamfered openings to ground; painted coursed droved stone with raised and rendered margins above; eaves course and moulded eaves cornice.

Timber sash and case windows, 4-pane to 1st floor (dormers unsympathetically modernised 2002); plate glass shopfront. Grey slate roof; flat skews and skewputs.

INTERIOR: relatively plain but original 1910 butchers' shop interior. White tiles to ¾ height with double band of blue-black tiles; tiled platform at base of walls with white fitted marble worktops on chrome supports; freestanding butcher's block (probably later); small metal-edged shelves; fitted chrome display rails to shop window; curved ceiling track with fitments for hanging carcasses; hatch to butcher's kitchen in flat above; dentilled cornice.