Blackwood The Butcher, 32, 34 Main Street, Beith

Blackwood The Butcher, located at 32 and 34 Main Street in Beith, dates from around 1840 and was altered in 1910. The building features three bays, two storeys, and an attic, with a butcher's shop on the ground floor. The shop entrance has a timber two-leaf panelled door with a two-pane hopper-type fanlight above it. There is a large central shop window and a smaller window to the right. To the left, there is a timber flush panelled door leading to a flat, which has a two-pane letterbox fanlight above. A continuous shop fascia runs between the ground and first floors, topped with a moulded cornice.

On the first floor, there are three windows, and the attic features two later piended dormers. The building is constructed of rendered stone with stop-chamfered openings on the ground floor, while the upper section is made of painted coursed droved stone with raised and rendered margins. It has an eaves course and a moulded eaves cornice. The timber sash and case windows on the first floor are four-pane, although the dormers were unsympathetically modernised in 2002. The shopfront is made of plate glass, and the roof is covered with grey slate, featuring flat skews and skewputs.

Inside, the butcher's shop retains a relatively plain but original 1910 interior. The walls are covered with white tiles up to three-quarters of their height, accented by a double band of blue-black tiles. There is a tiled platform at the base of the walls, with white fitted marble worktops on chrome supports. A freestanding butcher's block, likely added later, is present, along with small metal-edged shelves and fitted chrome display rails at the shop window. The curved ceiling track has fitments for hanging carcasses, and there is a hatch leading to the butcher's kitchen in the flat above. The interior also features a dentilled cornice.