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Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton

A Category C Listed Building in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.773 / 55°46'22"N

Longitude: -4.0391 / 4°2'20"W

OS Eastings: 272182

OS Northings: 655173

OS Grid: NS721551

Mapcode National: GBR 017P.BD

Mapcode Global: WH4QW.X5S6

Plus Code: 9C7QQXF6+58

Entry Name: Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton

Listing Name: Kemp Street, Former Caledonian Railway Booking Office

Listing Date: 4 May 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 378839

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34563

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200378839

Location: Hamilton

County: South Lanarkshire

Town: Hamilton

Electoral Ward: Hamilton South

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Ticket office

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Description

Dated 1906. Single storey, rectangular-plan former Caledonian Railway booking office, built on falling ground on brick and steel sub-structure adjoining lower platform to rear. Red brick, pink ashlar dressings, slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles. Base course, flat-coped skews, coped end stacks.

FRONT ELEVATION: large keystoned and moulded round-headed entrance doorway to centre with panelled doors, tripartite window to left with 8-pane sash and case windows, ashlar parapet with 'CALEDONIAN RAILWAY' inscribed in large Roman lettering; slightly advanced gable to right with window (mullion removed, modern glazing), date panel above.

SIDE GABLES: blank.

REAR ELEVATION: covered staircase to platform, now bricked up at retaining wall.

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