The Old Station House

The Old Station House

A former railway station built in 1876 for the Great Northern Railway. The building is constructed from coursed, rock-faced Ancaster stone with flush ashlar dressings and a pantile roof.

The west-facing building has a linear plan comprising the station master's house at the north end with a lean-to on the gable end, a central element formerly housing the waiting room, lobby and ticket office, and a south range that previously contained the ladies' waiting room, lamp room and gentlemen's WC.

The exterior features a chamfered plinth, quoins and pitched roofs with exposed rafter feet and plain bargeboards. Two ashlar ridge stacks and a single lateral stack have rock-faced stone plinths and moulded oversailing cornices. The central two-storey element contains three bays with a slightly projecting crosswing to the north forming the station master's house. On the entrance front, the gable end of the crosswing has a recessed 20th-century door with overlight and a pair of four-over-four pane sash windows above. All openings have blocked surrounds with slightly pointed heads, and the windows are mostly 20th-century replacements. The three bays to the right have six-over-six pane sashes on both floors of the first and third bays. A centrally placed double-leaf door salvaged from a bank stands above a blind first-floor window. A lean-to to the left is lit by a small two-over-two pane sash. The long, narrow single-storey south range to the right features a ridge stack and is lit on the west side by a small four-over-four pane sash and another small 20th-century window.

The east platform front's central element has a 20th-century brick lean-to enclosing the recessed area originally covered by an awning which retains its wooden valencing. The awning previously sheltered a double-leaf door from the waiting room, now replaced with a 20th-century glazed door and flanked by large original six-over-six pane sashes. The first floor is lit on the first and third bays by six-over-six pane sashes, with a blind central window. The crosswing to the right is lit on both floors by pairs of narrow four-over-four pane sashes, and the lean-to by a large sash window. The single-storey south range to the left originally had a pitched roof over the ladies' waiting room and a flat roof over other rooms, now heightened to include a timber-clad first floor. Two door openings on the left have been partially blocked to create windows, while the pair of windows to the right is 20th-century, though the surrounds are original.

Following conversion to domestic use, little of the original fixtures and fittings remain. The basic plan form survives except for the ticket office and waiting room, which have been converted into one large room.

Note: 20th-century lean-to brick extension on the east elevation, single-storey stone extension at the north end, attached garage, early 21st-century conservatory and attached new house to the south are not included in the listing.