Ilkley Station

Ilkley Station was built in 1864 by J H Sanders. Originally a terminus, it had a through line added around 1880, which has since been dismantled. The station building is located on the south side of the shed and set back from the road. It is a single-storey structure faced with ashlar stone and features a hipped slate roof above a strongly bracketed cornice.

At the center, there is a taller transverse block that projects on both fronts, with the ends of the building also projecting. The central block has a large Venetian window supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters, while each end projection contains a three-light window with pilasters and an entablature. Between these are five sash windows, which have geometrically arranged glazing bars under moulded arches. The platform side of the building is nearly identical, but some windows have been replaced with doors.

Inside the central block, there is a single vestibule with entrances on the sides of the street projection, featuring metal glazed canopies supported by single columns with decorated spandrels, as well as an entrance through the Venetian window to the platform.

The main canopy over the three platforms is made of metal and consists of two spans supported by five pairs of square columns that are fluted below and have tall bracketed capitals. Each span features six horizontal ridges and furrows of glass. Extending eastward along the platforms are lower, separate ridge-and-furrow canopies on pairs of octagonal columns similar to the larger ones, with seven bays on the north platform and five on the other two platforms.

On the north platform, there is a cast-iron railing and a decorative iron scroll wall-bracket that supports a sign. Except for the length of the station building, the platform shed is enclosed by a plain wall of coursed stone. There are also four decorated metal gas-lamp posts on the outer part of the middle platform, although the lamp heads are missing.