Station Master’s house by the Midland Railway. 1876. Two storeys, coursed red sandstone ashlar walls, pitched slated roofs on generally common ridge lines. Stone chimney stacks, one single stack, one multiple stack. Gables on all elevations with pierced decorative timber bargeboards. Timber doors. Timber casement windows all with segmental heads, all replaced by modern windows. Porch with pitched roof and bargeboards to main entrance on elevation D now removed. Walled open yard with single storey outbuildings within, attached to elevation B at rear entrance, now all removed.
North east elevation A facing private garden and back of station down platform: 2 bays, right: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor 6-light and ground floor 9-light windows. Left: First floor 6-light window as dormer with bargeboards, ground floor 6-light window. Enclosed yard to left removed. Multiple chimney stack centred on ridge.
South east elevation B facing private drive: 2 bays, right: projecting gable with 6-light window to first floor; modern 3-sided bay window with matching stone walls and pitched slated roof added to ground floor. Left, east part of elevation occupied by two storey extension in matching stone with flat roof; 3-light modern window to first floor, large modern conservatory, and new main entrance doors, with pitched slated roof with rooflight, to ground floor.
South west elevation C facing access road “Lady Steps”: 1 bay, right: projecting gable, 6-light window to first floor; modern 3-sided bay window with matching stone walls and pitched slated roof added to ground floor. Left: modern single storey extension with matching stone walls and pitched slated roof, 2-light window to front. Single chimney stack on ridge.
North west elevation D facing former Main Station Building and Booking Office: 2 bays-
- Left: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor 6-light window, ground floor, projecting gabled single storey porch removed from main entrance, replaced by modern opening in main wall with cranked jambs below lintel, with glazed double entrance doors and fanlight over.
- Right: modern single storey extension in matching materials and plain bargeboards with ground floor window and single glazed entrance door (facing garden). Multiple stack on ridge centred on gable in this view.
Notes
1: Station Master’s Houses were provided to a similar design at Settle and Carlisle line stations, with some variation in materials and with orientation of the building varied to suit its site.
2: The house stands south east of the former main station building on the down, northbound side of the railway; its curtilage extends from the back of the former platform to the access road. The Conservation Area boundary abuts the north east elevation A so the house itself stands immediately outside the Conservation Area.
3: The house 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 4th June 2020.