Kilgour Block

• the mid-block location on the north side of Bannatyne Avenue between Main and Rorie streets, with the warehouse fully occupying the site, contributing to continuous built edges at the front (south) and rear
• the building's visual and physical connections to the adjacent Ashdown Warehouse (east) and McClary Building (west), structures of similar age, height and style

Key exterior elements that define the building as a Romanesque Revival-style warehouse include:

• the substantial, well-defined rectangular massing, six storeys high, with a flat roof and load-bearing walls of buff-coloured brick over heavy wood post-and-beam construction and a raised stone foundation
• the front facade's imposing verticality and symmetry expressed through four rhythmic bays of vertically aligned openings framed by low-relief brick pilasters that stretch from the base to round brick arches over the sixth-floor windows
• the extensive fenestration, provided at the front by large flat-headed rectangular openings, round-arched windows on the top storey, and at the rear by tall segmental-arched windows vertically aligned
• the main entrance, set in the southeast corner in high brick and smooth-cut stone surrounds
• the contrast of textured and smooth finishes, including at the front the base of rusticated and smooth-cut stone, the large metal entablature, the band of corbelled brickwork below the entablature and the smooth-cut stone windowsills, lintels and keystones, etc.
• the plain symmetrical massing of the rear elevation, including two loading bays
• the full-length covered west-side driveway

Key interior elements that define the building's original warehouse function include:

• the stairway, elevator and original elements in the ground-floor office