Survey Data
Reg No
22402916
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
Railway station
Date
1845 - 1850
Coordinates
212014, 170751
Date Recorded
05/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached irregular-plan multiple-bay single and two-storey railway station, built 1848. Comprising T-plan three-bay single-storey block with dormer floor and with projecting porch to front, L-plan five-bay single-storey block to south with belfry and later glazing to five-bay waiting room on track-side elevation. Stepped plan to east and west gables. Lean-to extension to front and recent flat-roof extension to north and south gables. Pitched artificial slate roofs with timber bargeboards and cut-stone chimneystacks heightened in brick. Dressed snecked limestone walls with cut limestone plinth, quoins and dressings to openings. Mainly pointed-arch openings to front elevation and square to track-side elevation. North end of building has timber sliding sash windows, margined two-over-two pane to first floor, having four-over-four to front and two-over-two to platform side of ground floor, and having replacement latticed windows elsewhere, all in chamfered openings. Some blind openings to track-side elevation. Replacement door to front recessed in pointed-arch opening in porch with diagonal buttresses and pitched slate roof. Waiting room with chamfered timber posts separating later glazing, with glazed doors and with four-centred-arch internal doorways, one blind. Belfry is stepped two-stage cut limestone structure with pointed-arch openings to each stage.
Appraisal
This railway station is of a high architectural standard of design and detailing. The building retains many original features and materials, such as the limestone dressings, distinctive chimneystacks and timber sash windows. The railway station is enhanced by the railway bridge and related outbuildings to the site.