Dunfermline Building Society, 34 New Bridge Street, Ayr

The Dunfermline Building Society, located at 34 New Bridge Street in Ayr, is a former bank designed by Thomas Hamilton in 1832. This two-storey, five-bay building is near square in shape and showcases Greek Revival architectural style. The southeast elevation features polished ashlar stone, with a channelled ground floor, while the southwest elevation is constructed from coursed sandstone. Architectural details include a base course, a dividing band course, a dentilled cornice, and a recessed pediment. The first floor is distinguished by a fluted Ionic colonnade that separates the bays, with double pilasters on the outer bays that rise through the cornice to create corniced corner dies. The first-floor windows on the southeast elevation have panelled aprons.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a central square-headed moulded doorpiece with a two-leaf timber door and flanking single windows. The first floor has regular fenestration and a lunette in the pediment. The southwest (Academy Street) elevation has three bays, with two entrances at the ground level—one in the center with a timber door and another to the right with a two-leaf timber door. A central single stair window features a cill course, and there are three single windows on the first floor, with the outer bays being blind.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows on the ground and southwest elevations, with 6-pane upper sashes and 3-pane upper sections of lower sashes on the southeast elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features polygonal corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans.

Inside, the building has timber door surrounds and a deep, stepped ceiling cornice in the ground floor office. A curved staircase leading to the flatted accommodation is adorned with decorative balusters and a timber handrail.

The site is enclosed by a high coped rubble boundary wall to the northwest, which includes a square opening and a square-headed entrance.