Description
Station Waiting Room. 1876. Architect: attributed to J.H.Sanders. Single storey single depth range parallel to track, coursed red sandstone walls with ashlar dressings, pitched blue slated roof fitted with pierced ridge tiles. Trefoil recess in each gable. Gables fitted with pierced decorative timber bargeboards and lead/metal-covered gable cappings.
West elevation to platform: Symmetrical five bays, of which first and fifth break forward slightly. Centre bay has double timber doors with diagonal board panelling. Bays one, two, four and five have two windows each, of two lights with stone mullions and timber windows with moulded reveals and rounded upper corners. Gable to left on first bay has single door, gable to right on fifth bay has a further two-light window.
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 north gable facing the oncoming trains to the up, southbound platform.
2: It is not listed.
3: The Main Station Building and Booking Office (SCRCA Location ID 292560) opposite on the down, northbound platform is separately described.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs and a site assessment carried out on 19th September 2019. It was last updated on 23rd September 2019.