Historic Scotland - Stewarton

pair of windows to gable head. Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows to
upper storeys, windows boarded to ground. Grey slates, ashlar gable head stacks.
REFERENCES:
2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map, (1894-6). The Statistical Account of
Scotland, Vol9 p 379, 1795. New Statistical Account Vo15, 1845 pf727.
S Milligan Old Stewarton, Dunlop And Lugton (2001) p2.
NOTES:
This finely detailed dignified former bank is a significant addition to the
street scape of this main road in Stewarton. The symmetrical street elevation
with its delicate motif South to the window architraves mark this out as a building of
some quality and is evidence of Stewarton's 19th century wealth and
prosperity.
Stewarton is described in the Statistical Account of 1795 as consisting of' one
long and one broad street, with a cross one'. By the New Statistical Account
of1845, the town is described as 'three quarters of a mile in length with
several streets intersecting one another.' The town's main trade, from which it
developed much of its wealth, was bonnet making and the member of weavers
employed in this and associated trades increased from 100 in 1795 to around
300 in 1845.
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.
List description updated as part of Stewarton Burgh resurvey, 2009.
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