Description
Station Waiting Room. 1876. Architect: attributed to J.H. Sanders. Single storey single depth range parallel to track, coursed rock-faced golden freestone walls with ashlar dressings, pitched blue slated roof fitted with ridge tiles. Trefoil recess in each gable. Gables fitted with decorative timber bargeboards and lead/metal-covered gable cappings. Single stone chimney stack with moulded stone cap on ridge at north gable.
West elevation to platform: Symmetrical five bays, of which first and fifth break forward slightly. Centre bay formerly has double timber doors. Bays one, two, four and five have two 2-light timber windows each with stone mullions. Stone sills painted. Gable to left on first bay has single door, gable to right on fifth bay has a further single door. Cast iron drinking fountain in Bay one.
East elevation: Blank wall. Masonry retaining walls and base below platform level support room above.
Notes
1: On plan the first bay is a separate room; the remaining four bays form the waiting room with a fixed bench seat along the rear wall. The room was built with the left-hand first bay south gable facing the oncoming trains to the down, northbound platform.
2: It is not listed.
3: The Southern and Northern buildings on the Up former island platform (SCRCA Location ID 256660 and SCRCA Location ID 256680 respectively) opposite on the up, southbound platform are separately described.
4: The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1st August 1876 as “Hawes Junction”; it was re-named “Hawes Junction and Garsdale” on 20th January 1900, then reverted to “Garsdale” on 1st September 1932. The station was closed on 4th May 1970 but re-opened on 14th July 1986.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs. It was last updated on 24th September 2019.