Forestry Commission And Department Of Employment, 14-16 Hamilton Street, Girvan

In the style of David Rhind. Circa 1870. 2-storey and attic,

5-bay bank building in French Renaissance style. Lightly

stugged red sandstone with polished yellow ashlar dressings

and quoins. 3 boldly projecting central bays with

square-headed architraved windows (missing cornices) in

ground floor. Band course above supports pilasters to

round-arched and keystoned windows in 1st floor. 1st floor

windows in recessed bays, similarly detailed. Dentilled

cornice; parapet above with ball finials at angles, broken

by tall, central, pilastered, round-arched dormer with

segmental pediment, in steep mansard roof. Projecting porches

in re-entrant angles with round-arched, pilastered

doorpieces, dentilled cornices and balustraded parapets;

boldly channelled quoins. 2 tall stacks at junction with

central mansard and flanking piended roofs.