Station Master’s house by the Midland Railway. 1876. Two storey, coursed rock-faced limestone walls, pitched slated roofs on generally common ridge lines, with perforated ridge tiles and metal eaves cappings. Stone chimney stacks, one single stack, one multiple stack. Gables on all elevations with decorative timber bargeboards. Timber doors. Modern timber windows all with segmental heads, to match original designs. Previously demolished porch to south elevation D replaced, with pitched roof and decorative bargeboards. Walled open yard with modern perimeter wall to original configuration, infilled with modern single storey service building on original plan.
South west elevation A 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.
North west elevation B facing private garden: 2 bays, left: open yard enclosed by modern perimeter wall with single storey new building on left side with monopitch roof, to similar area to original yard; right: projecting gable with 6-light window to first floor only.
North east elevation C facing station access road: 1 bay: projecting gable, 6-light window to first floor; new 9-light window to ground floor; single chimney stack on ridge; to right new entrance door in new yard wall.
South east elevation D facing main station building: 2 bays, left: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor 6-light window, ground floor restored projecting gabled single storey porch with decorative bargeboards to main entrance. Multiple stack on ridge centred on gable in this view. Right: 3-light first floor window, ground floor 2-light window to left, 6-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 to the north of the main station building in an open grassed area set with trees, bounded on the west by the railway and on the east by the station approach road.
Note 3: The house was sold by the British Railways Board into private residential use in 1967; it was later bought by a Lancashire school until finally purchased by a subsidiary of the Settle and Carlisle Railway Trust in 2006, for whom it was restored and converted into holiday rental accommodation. It is not listed.
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs. It was last updated on 29th May 2020.