Girvan Station Including Signal Box

1946-51. Streamlined, single storey flat-roofed railway station in red brick with horizontal bands of cream-coloured faience. Entrance with paired doors (later replacements), window between; striped terrazzo step; low, broad curved canopy projecting beneath raised pediment. Flanking advanced shallow curved bays, each with 3 windows. Outer bays with 2 windows. Further long range to S with 12 windows forming band of glazing. Flat roof with overhanging eaves; some sections (trackside) probably added. Red-painted base course.

E (TRACKSIDE) ELEVATION: paired doors (later replacements) with glazing between; advanced shallow curved bays, that to left with 6 windows, 3 windows plus ticket hatch to right. Long range to left with irregular arrangement of windows and doors.

Original metal-framed hopper-type windows with lying-pane glazing (predominantly 12-pane, 4-pane upper sections).

INTERIOR: part seen (2004); retaining some original features including terrazzo floor and ticket hatch in waiting room.

SIGNAL BOX: Glasgow and South Western Railway Company (Type 3), 1893 with later alterations (see Notes). Large, 9-bay (formerly 7-bay) rectangular-plan signal box with piended, grey slate roof. Horizontal timber weather-boarding, painted white. Timber forestair and entrance to operating room at 8th bay. Brick chimney projection to rear. Non-traditional replacement windows (2012).