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Latitude: 55.5014 / 55°30'4"N
Longitude: -4.6142 / 4°36'51"W
OS Eastings: 234976
OS Northings: 626169
OS Grid: NS349261
Mapcode National: GBR 3B.VG3R
Mapcode Global: WH3QN.3Z0G
Plus Code: 9C7QG92P+G8
Entry Name: Prestwick Town Station Including Waiting Room
Listing Name: Prestwick Town Station Including Waiting Room
Listing Date: 14 October 2004
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 397813
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB50004
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: PTW
ID on this website: 200397813
Location: Monkton and Prestwick
County: South Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Prestwick
Parish: Monkton And Prestwick
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Railway station Architectural structure
1903. Long, single storey 9-bay range with gabled entrance to centre right supported on timber brackets with slender side lights; flanking tripartite windows; further tripartite, door and 4-part small window to right; bipartite, quadripartite and bipartite window to left. Squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone to base course; harled finish with raised quoins and tabbed window surrounds (painted). Bracketted eaves; bargeboarded gables.
W (TRACKSIDE) ELEVATION: timber matchboarding with dado; 5 doorways, that to waiting room arched; glazed canopy supported by cast-iron brackets with floral detail to spandrels. Circular station clock.
Timber sash and case windows with small-pane glazing to upper sashes. Grey graded slates; catslide roof vents; terracotta ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks removed.
INTERIOR: part seen (2004). Modernised.
WAITING ROOM: timber boarded waiting room with glazed canopy supported by cast-iron brackets with decorative spandrels; later glazing to trackside; other glazing as main building. Slated roof.
In the traditional 'Domestic Revival' style promoted by James Miller, responsible for a great many railway station designs in Scotland, this station was built by the Glasgow and South Western railway to replace an earlier building due to an increase in holiday traffic to the coastal resort. The station remains well preserved today.
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