Goods Shed, Bridlington Railway Station

Goods Shed, Bridlington Railway Station

A railways goods shed and office built in 1846 and designed for the York and North Midland Railway by George Townsend Andrews.

The building is constructed in yellow brick laid in Dutch bond with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate clad roof. It stands approximately 35 metres north-east of the station entrance on the south-eastern side of the track-bed, orientated roughly south-west to north-east. A small goods office block projects from the south-western end.

The main range is a tall single-storey structure of 5 by 2 bays, built on an ashlar plinth with an impost band at the springing level of the round-arched openings found in all elevations. The south-east elevation features a central round-arched former Diocletian window that has been lowered to the level of the former internal platform, as evidenced by secondary red brick to the window jambs. This window is flanked on either side by a round-arched former cart loading bay fitted with a pair of rolling timber doors with closely barred square ventilation panels. One rolling door includes a wicket door. The two end bays have tall secondary vehicle doorways with flat brick lintels, occupying the former positions of Diocletian windows that originally lit the interior. The rail-side north-west elevation retains its original appearance and symmetry, displaying three Diocletian windows and two railway wagon loading-bays closed by pairs of timber rolling doors.

The exposed north-east gable wall has a pair of round-arched openings: the right-hand opening is the former railway wagon doorway now closed by partially glazed secondary timber doors, while the left is a former window opening with a lowered pedestrian doorway. The railway wagon doorway in the left-hand bay of the south-west wall has been bricked-up and retains pintles set in the springing of the arch for a pair of hinged loading-gauges. To the right stands a single-storey goods office entered by an open-porch doorway, flanked by a 4 by 3 sash window. The north-west elevation of the office also has a similar window that formerly overlooked the weighbridge, whilst the south-east elevation is blind. The goods office has a hipped roof clad in Welsh slate that butts against the south-west wall beneath the eaves of the main range, with a brick chimney rising from the eastern slope.

The main range has a truncated former hipped roof with deep eaves, now with a gabled northern end, clad in Welsh slate and drained by a mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods.

The interior of the goods shed is an open-plan, well-lit space designed to enable unobstructed movement of goods and vehicles. It features white-washed brick walls and a secondary reinforced concrete slab floor, with small temporary timber offices at either end. The substantially framed timber rolling doors to the loading-bays are suspended by rollers on rails above each opening. The diagonal timber plank roof lining rests on rafters supported by a pair of timber purlins per side, which are in turn supported on King-post trusses. The trusses are linked by an off-centre longitudinal beam that is braced at either end of the shed. The goods office is a simple rectangular-plan room heated by a fireplace against the south-east wall and has an internal door to the goods shed in the north-east wall.