London Road Railway Station And Adjoining Goods Sheds And Canopies

The London Road Railway Station, along with its adjoining goods sheds and canopies, was built in 1857 by TC Hine of Nottingham for the Great Northern Railway Company. Later additions and goods sheds date from around 1900, with restoration work undertaken in 1987 and 1993. The building is constructed primarily of red brick, with ashlar and yellow brick dressings, and features gabled and hipped slate roofs with tile cresting. Nine original coped brick ridge stacks and two side wall stacks are present.

The station is designed in an Anglo-Italian style. The main range and entrance face north, with a secondary range to the right facing west, connected by a single-story rounded corner. A late 19th-century addition exists at the south end. Extensive goods sheds and platform canopies with valanced roofs are on the south side.

The main range is two stories plus attics, with seven bays. It features a plinth, quoins, a first-floor cornice, diaper work to the parapet, and mainly glazing bar sash windows, with round-arched dummy windows to the ground floor. A central round-arched porte-cochere incorporates panelled pilasters, cast-iron columns and a balustrade, leading to a single-story range behind with similar detailing and balustrades. A shaped gable with polychrome pilasters contains a round-arched window and a clock, surmounted by a truncated pyramidal roof with cast-iron cresting. Projecting bays contain canted upper floors with balustrades and varying window arrangements.

The west front is single-story plus attics, with nine window bays. An off-centre entrance bay has a pediment containing a Venetian window, and the attics feature eight round-arched through-eaves dormers. A late 19th-century addition to the south has a cart entrance with a steel lintel.

Adjoining the west side is an open shed with cast-iron columns and a valanced wooden roof. Goods sheds on the south and east sides have valanced platform canopies supported by a steel and cast-iron structure with wooden cladding and slate roofs, including clerestory and glazed ventilators. The station was disused from 1900 and later served as a parcels depot from 1944 until around 1985.