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Latitude: 55.2422 / 55°14'31"N
Longitude: -4.8556 / 4°51'20"W
OS Eastings: 218552
OS Northings: 597941
OS Grid: NX185979
Mapcode National: GBR 40.CXYZ
Mapcode Global: WH2QR.DH1L
Plus Code: 9C7Q64RV+VQ
Entry Name: Mckechnie Institute And Reading Rooms, Dalrymple Street, Girvan
Listing Name: Dalrymple Street Mckechnie Institute
Listing Date: 8 May 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 373580
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32129
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Girvan, Dalrymple Street, Mckechnie Institute And Reading Rooms
ID on this website: 200373580
Location: Girvan
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Girvan
Electoral Ward: Girvan and South Carrick
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Institute building
James McKissack of McKissack and Rowan, 1887-8. Scottish
Baronial library, reading rooms etc. Stugged red sandstone,
with polished dressings. 2-storey, L-plan with tall 3-storey
octagonal tower in re-entrant angle. Deeply recessed
round-arched door in right bay with 2 similarly headed
windows with apron panels to left. Boldly corbelled
balustrade above with ball finials. 2 transomed windows with
broken pedimented heads in 1st floor, set in a pair of
crowstepped gables with decorative quoins. 3 sides of angle
tower have mullion and transom windows at ground, pedimented
windows at 1st floor on each face. Tower rises to octagon
above 1st floor, each window with neo-Jacobean scrolled head.
Balustrade with ball finials. Crowstepped gable end of main
hall with large simplified Venetian window in 1st floor
fronting Ailsa Street West. Lower crowstepped gabled wing
beyond with 3 windows rising through eaves to form wall-head
dormers, the outer piended, the inner crowstepped. Slate
roof.
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