The Station House And The Station Bungalow

The Station House and The Station Bungalow are a pair of residential buildings originally serving as a station building and stationmaster's house, constructed around 1865. They are made of red brick with grey brick dressings, sandstone cills and lintels, and feature slate roofs. The layout consists of a shallow H-plan station building to the north-west and a stationmaster's house to the south-east, forming an L-plan, designed in a simplified Tudor Gothic style. The buildings are one and two storeys high and include a plinth and decorative pierced bargeboards with finials. The stationmaster's house has a semi-integral end stack to the south-west and an external lateral stack to the north-west, while the station building has a stack off-ridge to the north-west.

The windows are wooden 2- and 3-light cross casements. On the north-east front, the former stationmaster's house is on the left with a gable to the front, a first-floor cross window, and a ground-floor 3-light window. The left-hand return front has three windows and features a slightly projecting gabled semi-dormer, with a central panelled door and a 20th-century glazed lean-to porch. The former station building, slightly projecting to the right, has projecting gabled wings, with a 3-light window on the left and a 2-light casement on the right, both with slit openings above. There is a pentice roof over a recessed centre with a canted bay to the right and a 20th-century half-glazed door to the left with an overlight. A Victorian Royal Mail post box is set into the wall to the left, and there is a recessed trefoiled stone panel at the rear. A 20th-century lean-to addition is present on the north-west side.

Plowden was an intermediate station on the former Bishop's Castle Railway, which closed in 1935. This station was likely more elaborate than others on the line because it also served the Plowden Hall estate. The Bishop's Castle Railway was part of an unfinished plan to connect Craven Arms with Montgomery in 1865 and operated under receivership from 1866 until its closure in 1935, remaining independent until the end.