Gardens · Scottish Highlands
Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick
Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick — a garden in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom.
Thomas Nugent — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick is a garden of interest in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Prestwick Burgh Hall, also known as Prestwick Freeman's Hall and Prestwick Freemen's Hall, is a municipal building in Kirk Street, Prestwick, Scotland. The structure, which served as the meeting place of Prestwick Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building.
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Background
History
The first municipal building in Prestwick was an early 18th century tolbooth. The tolbooth was used as the offices and meeting place of the chancellor and the two bailies who administered the town: they were elected annually by the 36 freemen of the burgh who owned 1,000 acres of land in and around the town. The current building was commissioned by the freemen of Prestwick for use as the local burgh school. It was designed in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1837. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the corner of The Cross and Kirk Street; the central bay, which projected forward, featured a porch with an arched…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.5020, -4.6106
- Address
- Kirk Street, Prestwick
- Established
- 1837
Sources
- wikidata: Q17521196 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Prestwick Burgh Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick?
- Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.5020°, -4.6106°.
- When was Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick built?
- Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick dates to 1837.