Description
Main Station Building and Booking Office (Closed). 1876. Architect: attributed to J.H. Sanders. Single storey, coursed rock-faced cream limestone with red sandstone ashlar quoins to angles and openings; pitched slated roofs fitted with plain ridge tiles on generally common ridge lines. Horizontal lower edges of roofs altered slightly leaving rafter ends exposed. Stone chimney stacks; gables on all elevations with pierced decorative timber bargeboards. Timber doors, timber casement windows, three with camber-heads, others with straight lintels. Waiting room with glazed screen to platform in three bays with glazing on each side of double timber doors.
East elevation to station approach: 3 bays, centre: projecting gable with quatrefoil decorative oculus over 6-light camber-headed window with transom and two mullions, all lights with margin panes; bays to left and right each with two 2-light windows with transoms, straight lintels and margin panes. On main longitudinal ridge 2 stacks. To right further lower wing with 1 single-light and 1 double-light margin-paned windows, the latter in place of assumed original timber access hatch.
West elevation to platform: 3 bays: left and right projecting gables, each with quatrefoil oculus over 6-light camber-headed window with transom and two mullions, all lights with margin panes; in centre 3-bay glazed timber screen with cast-iron glazing on each side of timber double doors, roofed with shallower pitched cat-slide extension to main roof. To left further lower wing with 1-light and 2-light windows flanking central timber door.
North end elevation: 2 bays, right: single 2-light margin-paned window; three vertical slots in upper part of gable; main gable with three vertical slots in upper part of gable; left: plain lower gable to wing and two vertical slots in upper part of gable; timber door to right and 1-light margin paned window to left. This elevation was not accessible at the time of writing this Description. Details assumed.
South end elevation: 2 bays, right: single 2-light margin-paned window; main gable with three vertical slots in upper part of gable; left: plain lower gable with two vertical slots in upper part of gable to wing with timber door to right.
Notes
1: The glazed screen to the platform side of the recessed waiting room is in three bays, fitted between shallow masonry nibs on the side walls. The three bays are separated by four columns, circular in section at bases, shafts, and decorative capitals, the two outer columns being partly recessed into the masonry nibs. The columns support a beam and masonry over. Between the two centre columns is a pair of framed and diagonal panelled doors. In the bays on either side of the centre columns are windows with sills and timber panels below, on stone plinths similar in height to those of the main external walls adjacent. The windows have two vertical glazing bars and two horizontal bars. Within the intersection of the bars three circular panes are inserted at mid-height.
2: This building is a Type 3, Small, former Main Station Building and Booking Office, standing on the up, southbound platform from which it is fenced off. The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1st May 1876, then closed on 4th May 1970 and the building later sold into private ownership. It is currently (2018) in use as a private residence.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from drawings and photographs. It was last updated on 8th May 2020.