Station Master’s House by the Midland Railway. 1876. Two storey, coursed rock-faced limestone 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 mostly single pane windows in uPVC frames. Porch to main entrance, with pitched roof and bargeboards, now removed. Walled open yard with single storey outbuildings within, attached to elevation B at rear entrance, now all removed.
West elevation A facing station up platform: 2 bays, right: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor and ground floor windows replaced as above. Left: First floor window as dormer with bargeboards, ground floor window, both modern. Enclosed yard to left removed. Multiple chimney stack centred on ridge.
North elevation B facing private garden: 2 bays, left: open yard removed; right: projecting gable with modern window to first floor only. Left, east part of elevation occupied by single storey extension with sloping single pitch slated roof. Right, west part of elevation occupied by modern glazed conservatory with sloping single pitch roof.
East elevation C facing station approach road: 1 bay: projecting gable, single window to first floor removed and replaced by two rectangular 2-light windows; single chimney stack on ridge; to right on ground floor modern entrance door.
South elevation D facing Main Station Building and Booking Office: 2 bays, left: projecting gable with bargeboards; first floor window, ground floor, projecting gabled single storey porch removed from main entrance. Multiple stack on ridge centred on gable in this view. Right: first floor window, ground floor window to left, further window to right.
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 the orientation of the building also varied to suit its site
2: The house is in private residential use.
3: It is listed Grade II as "Station Master’s House at Settle Station, Station Road" (List entry number 1166786, first listed 9/3/1984).
Acknowledgements and revision history
This formal description was prepared by Richard J. A. Tinker from photographs. It was last updated on 20th May 2020.