Description
Station Waiting Room (Closed). 1876. Architect: attributed to J.H.Sanders. Single storey single depth range, red sandstone ashlar walls and dressings, pitched blue slated roof fitted with pierced ridge tiles and lead/metal covered gable cappings mostly missing. Trefoil recess in each gable. Gables fitted with pierced decorative timber bargeboards, damaged.
Elevation to platform facing west: Symmetrical five bays, of which first and fifth break forward slightly. Centre bay has double timber doors with diagonal boarded panelling. Bays one, two, four and five have two windows each, of two lights with stone mullions and 2-light timber windows with rounded upper corners. Gable to left on first bay has single door, gable to right on fifth bay has a further 2-light window.
Rear elevation facing east: Blank wall.
Notes:
1: On plan the first bay is a separate room; the remaining four bays form the waiting room with wooden seats along the rear wall. The room was built with the left-hand first bay gable facing oncoming up trains at the north end.
2: The Waiting Room stands on the up, southbound platform. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1st May 1876 then closed on 5th November 1956. The building is disused with no public access and in very poor condition (2019), such that it should properly be classified as “At risk”.
3: The building is listed Grade II as “Cumwhinton Station” (List entry number 1335564 first listed 1984-03-09). The description includes a brief reference to this Waiting Room. It is suggested that the description should be modified with the Waiting Room text removed and the building listed separately, as at Dent and Appleby and as proposed at Settle.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs and a site assessment carried out on 1st March 2019. It was last updated on 3rd October 2019.