Guild Street Bridge

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 02/03/1990 Supplementary Information Updated 10/05/2016 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 94152 05889 Coordinates 394152, 805889 — J A Parker, engineer, 1913-20. Long single-storey railway station facing east, with near central double height Beaux-Arts 5-bay polygonal entrance pavilion with full length cast iron cantilevered canopy and asymmetrical classical granite pavilions to north and south. Yellow sandstone to central pavilion; granite ashlar to outer pavilions. Modern extensions to south (2006). Entrance elevation to east; altered to ground; mid-height semi-circular window openings with fan-light glazing and small paired deep-set square windows above. Bays separated by paired Doric columns. Deep dentilled cornice. Stepped parapet. The interior was seen in 2006. The spacious concourse with impressive shallow segmental-arched glass and steel roof with glazed end screens. Glass and steel awnings to platforms supported on cast iron columns and with decorative timber valances. Some flat-arched openings to block to east. Some glass and timber doors. Timber lined bridge giving access to platforms at west. Internal spaces to buildings comprehensively modernised. ROAD OVERBRIDGE: circa 1909 or circa 1913 bridge over railway tracks, to the north of the station, on Rivetted and latticed 2-span steel bowstring bridge with flat-span plate-girder pedestrian bridge either side to north and south. Plaque with inscription 'ALEXr FINDLAY & CO LIMITED PARKNEUK WORKS MOTHERWELL'. Corniced and panelled, granite terminal piers. — This station was the last major station to be built within Scotland. The use of sandstone as a building material for the entrance hall is unusual in Aberdeen, where granite is the more common build

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.