Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

57 - 65 (ODD NUMBERS) KING STREET AND 22 SANDBED STREET, VICTORIA BUILDINGSLB48746

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
01/08/2002
Local Authority
East Ayrshire
Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Burgh
Kilmarnock
NGR
NS 42796 37842
Coordinates
242796, 637842

Description

Thomas Smellie, 1901. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay Flemish Renaissance residential and commercial property. Modern shop front to ground; near-symmetrical upper section; corbelled polygonal tower to right; moulded string course at 2nd floor. Red Ballochmyle stone to main elevation; red brick to side elevation.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: modern shop front at ground floor; near symmetrical 1st and 2nd floors. 2 bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors in centre with emphatic overhanging eaves cornice and flanking stepped pyramidal caps; modern attic extension above. Semi-elliptical 2-storey bay to left; single window in gablehead above; Flemish gable above composed of attached Ionic columns with frieze and cornice joined by large arch. Bipartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors to right; half-gable above with single window and arched ornamental frame identical to that on left. Polygonal tower corbelled out on far right: single windows at 1st floor on main elevation and right return, framed by attached Ionic columns supporting corbelling; single windows on each plane of tower at 2nd floor; mock machicolations above; single windows on 2nd and 4th plane of tower at attic; bracketed eaves and finial crowning roof.

ELEVATION: gabled wall; tripartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors and at attic; single storey extension to rear.

Modern glazing to ground floor; 2-pane sash and case glazing. Grey slate; straight skews.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.

Statement of Special Interest

Victoria Buildings were built for Robert Rogerson and were described by the contemporary press as an example of a 'self-possessed restful facade'. There is a clear influence of Glasgow architecture in Smellie's design, especially JJ Burnet's Athenaeum Theatre, Buchanan Street of 1891. King Street was opened in 1804 as part of the urban improvements begun by the Earl of Glencairn in 1765. The buildings along King Street were predominantly businesses and clubs rather than residential properties. In the 1970s, a substantial proportion of the street was demolished for new retail developments.

References

Bibliography

1879, p209; D Landsborough CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOCAL HISTORY 1879, p85; R Close AYRSHIRE & ARRAN - AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE 1992, pp102-3; R Close, "Some Kilmarnock Architects" in ASPECTS OF LOCAL HISTORY pp55-6. 1st Edition OS Map, 1857; A McKay HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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