Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 1993. Booking office. 1 related planning application.

Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton

WRENN ID
stark-paling-fern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Hamilton and Clyde Valley MP: Imogen Walker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 May 1993
Type
Booking office
Address
Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton, ML3 6QL
OS grid reference
NS 721 551
Coordinates
55.77294, -4.03915
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Booking Office at Caledonian Railway Station in Hamilton, dated 1906, is a single-storey, rectangular-plan building that was formerly used as a booking office. It is situated on sloping ground and is supported by a brick and steel sub-structure that adjoins the lower platform at the rear. The exterior features red brick with pink ashlar dressings, a slate roof, and terracotta ridge tiles, along with a base course, flat-coped skews, and coped end stacks.

The front elevation showcases a large, keystoned, and moulded round-headed entrance doorway at the center, which is fitted with panelled doors. To the left, there is a tripartite window with 8-pane sash and case windows. Above, an ashlar parapet bears the inscription 'CALEDONIAN RAILWAY' in large Roman lettering. To the right, a slightly advanced gable contains a window with the mullion removed and modern glazing, along with a date panel above.

The side gables are blank, while the rear elevation features a covered staircase leading to the platform, which has been bricked up at the retaining wall.

Local climate

Booking Office, Caledonian Railway Station, Kemp Street, Hamilton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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