10 Kirk Street, 8, Strathaven

This is a three-storey building at 10 Kirk Street and 4 Kirk Street, Strathaven, dating from 1706. It comprises domestic and shop premises situated alongside Powmillon Burn, with later additions and alterations, notably an earlier 19th-century facade facing Kirk Street.

The building is constructed of random rubble, with polished and stugged ashlar and stugged snecked rubble to the Kirk Street elevation, and a brick addition to the rear second floor. All surfaces are painted. The roof is gabled and piended, covered with slate. The side and rear elevations feature mostly 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with a two-pane bipartite window to the rear brick addition. The Kirk Street elevation retains original plate glass shop windows, and a four-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, while a recessed, bowed angle at the far left contains a door, both featuring finely moulded architraves. A band course runs along the first floor and wallhead, with margined angles and a corniced parapet incorporating a corniced and shouldered octagonal stack.

The side elevation has two windows at ground floor, one at first and second floor levels, arranged asymmetrically. A blocked door is located at first floor, slightly right of centre, with rendered-over moulded architraves, and 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.

On the rear elevation, a gable is present to the right, with a ground-floor door, two first-floor windows, one second-floor window, and a blocked oculus to the roofspace. A bay to the left has a ground-floor door and window, and a bipartite window in the second floor.

The building may have originally served as a mill, due to its location by the burn. The brick addition to the rear second floor was reportedly constructed in the early 20th century to house Strathaven’s first telephone exchange.