Architecture Notes

Event ID 784438

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS32NW 16 34979 26187

Opened c.1840 as a through station on the railway to Ayr. Single storey wooden building with slated roof. Platform awning supported by cast iron columns. Originally with an enclosed footbridge this has now been replaced by an open type. Chimney stacks removed.

Depicted as a single roofed building on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Ayrshire, 1858 sheet), annotated as 'Prestwick Station', by the date of the 2nd edition (1896), the present station was in existence though shorter in length and with up platform shelter, footbridge and goods yard with weighing machine and goods station. By the Provisional Edition the main station building had been extended to it's present length.

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey (ONB) describes the station as 'One storey slated building in good repair property of the South Western Railway Company' (Name Book 1856).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2008.