Brocklesby Station

Brocklesby Station is a railway station and station master's house built in 1847–8 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. Later additions to the station master's house date to the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, and features a tile roof with lead roofs to the bay windows.

The station building stands between two platforms, with the rear platform now disused. The architectural style is Jacobethan. The plan comprises a central Booking Hall with a two-room cross wing to the left containing the Waiting Room to the front and Ladies Room to the rear, with Lord Yarborough's Waiting Room at the left end. A similar cross wing to the right contains the station master's rooms, with a later addition set back to the right and extensions to the front.

The north platform elevation presents a complex composition of single storey with attic and two storeys across eight bays. The central section contains the two-bay Booking Hall, with a single-bay projecting Waiting Room wing to the left and a three-bay Yarborough Waiting Room set back at the left end. To the right sits a single-bay projecting wing and a two-storey, two-bay section set back with single storey extensions to the front. The building displays flush quoins throughout.

The Booking Hall features a recessed panelled door in an ashlar surround and a three-light wooden ovolo-mullioned and transomed window to the left in a chamfered ashlar reveal. The Waiting Room wing to the left has an entrance in the right return with a triangular-headed half-glazed door in a chamfered ashlar reveal, a projecting wooden canted bay window with ovolo-mullioned lights in chamfered reveals, a plain entablature, cornice and hipped roof, and a single-light transomed window in an ashlar reveal to the left return. The Yarborough Waiting Room has half-glazed doors at the left end in an ashlar surround, with three-light and single-light mullioned windows in ashlar reveals to the right.

The projecting wing to the right of the Booking Hall has a ground floor brick bay window with quoins, a three-light mullioned and transomed window to the front and single-light windows to the sides in chamfered ashlar reveals, a moulded cornice and hipped roof. The extension to the right features a wooden cross-mullioned window in an ashlar reveal and an ornate bargeboard to the right gable. The projecting front wings have single-light ashlar attic windows. Most windows retain glazing bars.

The platform awning to the central section between the wings and to the left end is supported by pairs of cast-iron columns with octagonal bases and foliate capitals, which support a framework with ornate brackets beneath a flat roof with a wooden fringe. The section to the right was derelict at the time of re-survey. A single similar column and bracket remain for a former canopy to the right side of the right wing.

The steeply pitched roof displays decorative ridge tiles and curvilinear coped gables with ornate finials. Four tall stacks rise prominently: three axial stacks with quoins and octagonal ashlar chimneys with chamfered bases and moulded cornices (one, two and four shafts respectively), and a lateral stack to the front of the right section with three shafts.

The left return features a canted bay window and attic window similar to those of the Waiting Room wing. The rear elevation, facing the former platform and approach from Brocklesby Park, shows the original section to the right with a central panelled door to the Booking Hall flanked by single-light ashlar windows and similar window and gable details to the front. The station master's house to the left has a half-glazed door in a keyed round-headed ashlar surround, ground floor casements and first floor twelve-pane sashes in chamfered ashlar reveals.

The interior of the station rooms contains moulded plaster cornices, doors and windows in wide architraves, and original chimneypieces. The chimneypiece in the Yarborough Waiting Room is particularly ornate. Lord Yarborough, who was chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at the time the line was constructed, gave his name to his waiting room. The station served visitors to Brocklesby Hall, including royalty. At the time of re-survey, the station rooms were empty and in a state of decay.