Station Booking Hall And Offices

The building is a station booking hall and offices built in 1933 for the London, North-Eastern Railway. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and clay tile roofs. The main section is a tall, single-storey, five-bay central block, flanked by lower, two-storey, single-bay wings which project. The central block features a wide central bay and slightly overlapping, projecting bays to either side, each with further projecting blind walling towards the centre. A flat canopy extends across the full width at the first-floor height of the side wings, with similar canopies to the wings themselves. Below the central block’s canopy is a deep ashlar plinth with a moulded base and decorative band. Wide doorways with architraves are in bays 2 and 4; blocked windows with raised surrounds are to the outer side of each door. Bay 1 has a margin glazed metal casement window within a stone architrave, and bay 5 has a later addition with a similar window. Above the outer bays are tall, single-light, margin glazed windows in moulded architraves, while bays 2 and 4 have similar three-light windows. The central bay contains a five-light window with a reeded jamb and plain lintel. A continuous stone band runs at eaves height, except above bays 2 and 4, where small stone roundels are positioned above the windows. Stepped-up parapets have flat stone copings. The roof is hipped and tall. The side wings have similar plinths, with two small metal-glazed paned windows and a door to the ground floor, above which are two narrow windows flanking two wider ones. A plain flush stone band is placed at lintel level of the first-floor windows, and the parapets have flat copings. The roofs are also hipped. Inside the booking hall, the walls are lined with polished marble to half their height, with a wide band at the top. Above the wall, the surface is articulated by four paired marble pilaster strips set into recessed panels. The ceiling has three large sunken circular panels, each with a circular light fitting in the centre and sunken bands to the sides, alternating lights and ridged panels. A single-storey wing to the left of the station, and a rear block of the 19th century, are not considered to be of particular architectural interest.