Survey Data
Reg No
30341041
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Railway station
Date
1865 - 1870
Coordinates
145412, 202029
Date Recorded
22/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached multiple-bay single-storey limestone railway station, built 1869, with two-bay central block, lower three-bay single-storey wing to south-west elevation, and lower two-bay single-storey block to north-east elevation. Currently under renovation. Hipped slate roofs with cut-stone corbelled eaves course. Snecked cut-stone walls with rock-faced rusticated quoins and plinth course. Segmental-headed window and door openings to south-east elevation, square-headed window and door openings to north-west elevation with moulded surrounds, some now blocked, having cut-stone surrounds and tooled sills with moulded brackets throughout. Square-profile water tower to north-east of site, removed and rebuilt at present location c.2009, having coursed dressed walls with rock-faced rusticated quoins and plinth course. Round-headed door opening with rock-faced rusticated surround, and step formed by plinth course. Set within grounds of railway station.
Appraisal
The simple forms and clarity of line of this railway station are enhanced and emphasised by carved limestone surrounds to the door and window openings which contrast with the rock-faced quoins and plinth course. These create textural variation in the building's appearance and are testament to the skill of nineteenth-century stonemasons and stone cutters commonly used in railway architecture. Part of a notable group with signal box and goods shed.