Historic Scotland - Stewarton

FURTHER DESCRIPTION:
central 2-leaf 6-panelled timber doors set within shouldered-arched doorway and with
segmental-arched door surround with console brackets and decorative cornice.
2-pane over plate glass timber sash and case to ground, replacement windows
to upper storeys. Piended roof with grey slates. Warhead stacks with some
decorative cans.
INTERIOR: ( partially seen, 2008). Ground floor largely modernised. Some cornicing to
flats above. Coloured glass to stair windows.
REFERENCES:
2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1894-6. Dictionary of Scottish
Architects, www.scottisharchitects.org.uk(accessed20-08-08).S Milligan
Old Stewarton, Dunlop And Lugton (2001) p12.
NOTES:
This bank building with its fine classical detailing has a significant presence in
the street scape of this main road in Stewarton. The Corinthian columned mullions and
the door surround in particular mark the bank out as being a building of some quality
within the town.
Lainshaw Street was one of the main shopping streets in Stewarton and is
described in Milligan as being 'one of Stewarton's most busy thoroughfares'.
The decorative elements of the bank emphasize the importance of the street. The
stonework to the street elevation changes in the building above the lintels of the first
floor. This may indicate that this floor was added later, but the stonework to the other
elevations does not support this.
It is possible that the builders found themselves with a reduced cash flow at this stage.
The Edinburgh architectural practice of Peddie and Kinnear was one of the most
influential and prolific in Scotland from mid to late 19th century and was responsible for
many key buildings in a large number of Scottish towns. Jolm Dick Peddie seemed
business with the Royal Bank of Scotland who set up branches in many Scottish towns
from circa 1855. Peddie took Charles George Hood Kinnear on as a partner circa 1856.
List description updated as part of Stewarton Burgh resurvey, 2009.
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