British Linen Bank, 72-74 Main Street, Largs

The British Linen Bank, located at 72-74 Main Street in Largs, was designed by architect Sir George Washington Browne and built in 1907. This former bank is an asymmetrical, two-storey building that follows the English Cotswold tradition and features three bays. The exterior is constructed of coursed ashlar with polished dressings.

The building has depressed arches over the doors and windows in the center and left bays. There are a pair of central recessed doors, each with moulded reveals in square panels, supported by an entablature. The right door features carved spandrels, a frieze decorated with cockle shells, and a square floral panel above. Above the left door, there is a first-floor mullioned window. The gabled right bay includes a base for a wallhead stack on the left and has a pair of tall, six-light corniced mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor, with two corniced mullioned windows above. The building features plain leaded glass panels throughout, a cornice, and a prominent deep gutter.

Tall, slender, corniced diamond stacks are positioned on gabled plinths at the foot of the skews, topped with finialed gables. The north elevation has a tall, mullioned and transomed window at the ground floor, with two single lights above. The west elevation showcases two advanced gables with mullioned windows and stacks. The roofs are covered with slate.