Station Master’s house by the Midland Railway. 1876. Two storey, coursed rock-faced red sandstone walls, pitched slated roofs with perforated ridge tiles on generally common ridge lines. Stone chimney stacks, one single stack, one multiple stack. Gables on all original elevations with decorative timber bargeboards. Timber doors. Modern timber or uPVC casement windows all with segmental heads. Porch to main entrance, with pitched roof and decorative bargeboards. Walled open yard replaced with modern single storey buildings.
South west elevation A diagonally facing station up platform: 2 bays, right: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor window 6-light, ground floor window 9-light. Left: First floor 6-light window as dormer with bargeboards, ground floor 6-light window. Multiple chimney stack centred on ridge. Modern single storey pitched slate roofed wing no.1 to left in matching sandstone with left, double garage door and right, 6-light horizontal format window.
North west elevation B facing private curtilage: 2 bays, left: original yard enclosed by wall replaced by two single storey modern buildings, no.1 right, no.2 left, with slated pitched roofs; gable wall building no.1 rendered, gable wall building no.2 exposed concrete blockwork, both gables with minimal plain bargeboards. Right: projecting gable with 6-light window to first floor.
North east elevation C facing Station Cottages and auction mart: 1 bay: projecting gable, 6-light window to first floor cut down to upper 2-lights only; single chimney stack on ridge; to right original rear entrance and yard wall replaced by two modern pitched slated roofed extensions, right no.3, left no.4, the latter centred on former 6-light window; both new buildings in red sandstone with decorative bargeboards.
South east elevation D facing station access path and St Nicholas’s Church: 2 bays, left: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor 6-light window, ground floor projecting gabled single storey porch to main entrance, porch with decorative bargeboards. Multiple stack on ridge centred on gable in this view. Right: 3-light first floor window, ground floor 2-light window to left, 4-light window to right.
Notes
1: Station Master’s Houses were provided to a similar design at Settle & Carlisle stations, with some variation in materials and with orientation of the building varied to suit its site.
2: The house stands east of and apart from the up, southbound platform with elevation A facing diagonally south west.
3: The house is not listed and is in private residential use.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs. It was last updated on 29th May 2020.