Station Farmhouse

Station Farmhouse is a farmhouse and former inn built in 1849 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. It is constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof and has a T-shaped layout. The building features a central entrance hall flanked by a double-depth wing and a contemporary outshut at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has four first-floor windows.

The façade includes a projecting enclosed gabled porch located to the right of the centre, which has a chamfered four-centred arch with a half-glazed door and a plain overlight in the reveal. The porch is adorned with ornate fretwork bargeboards that have a drop finial and are covered with fish-scale slates. Inside the porch, there is a two-fold half-glazed inner door set in a roll-moulded architrave.

On either side of the porch, there are single wooden cross-mullioned windows with sashes that feature glazing bars, cavetto mullions, and roll-moulded architraves, as well as rubbed-brick flat arches and stone sills. The first floor has a smaller similar window to the right, two windows to the left, and a narrow single-light window above the porch. The eaves are overhanging, and the bargeboards are ornate with finials.

To the right, there is a partly projecting end stack with a brick band and twin diamond-shafted corniced chimneys. Similar stacks are located at the rear, with two and three shafts. The left return of the building features a ground-floor bay window with three mullion and transom lights at the front and single lights on the sides. The rear wing has 9-pane and 12-pane sashes set in flush wooden architraves.

The interior retains its original staircase and chimneypieces. The similarities with buildings from the Nelthorpe Estate suggest that this farmhouse and inn, formerly known as The Queens Arms, was constructed by the Railway Company in collaboration with the Estate. The adjoining outbuildings at the rear are not of special interest.