4 Kirk Street, Strathaven

The building at 4 Kirk Street, Strathaven, dates to 1706, with later additions and alterations, most notably an earlier 19th-century facade facing Kirk Street. It is a 3-storey building of rectangular plan, combining domestic and shop premises and situated alongside Powmillon Burn. The construction is of random rubble, with polished and stugged ashlar and stugged snecked rubble to the Kirk Street elevation, a brick addition to the 2nd floor at the rear, all painted, and a gabled and piended slate roof. The side and rear elevations feature mostly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with a 2-pane bipartite window to the brick addition. The Kirk Street facade retains original plate glass shop windows, and a 4-pane sash and case window at the upper floor, with architraves.

The Kirk Street elevation is asymmetrical, featuring two doors with fanlights and two shop windows to the right, a cornice, and two windows at the first floor. An aproned shop window is located to the left, and a door is placed at a recessed bowed angle on the far left, both with finely moulded architraves. A band course runs at the 1st floor and wallhead, with margined angles and a corniced parapet incorporating a corniced and shouldered octagonal stack.

The side elevation presents two windows at ground floor level, one at the 1st floor, and two at the 2nd floor, arranged asymmetrically. A blocked door at the 1st floor, off-centre to the right, has rendered-over moulded architraves, with a lintel inscribed 'WL 1706'. A blocked window is visible in the roofspace. A lower and narrower bay to the right has a single window at ground floor level.

The rear elevation includes a gable to the right, with a door to the ground floor, two windows to the 1st floor, and one window to the 2nd floor. A blocked oculus is present in the roofspace. To the left is a bay with a door and window at ground floor, and a window at the 1st floor, along with a bipartite window to the 2nd floor.

The building's proximity to the burn suggests it may have originally been a mill. The brick addition to the 2nd floor at the rear was reportedly constructed to house Strathaven's first telephone exchange in the early 20th century.