Knighton Railway Station

Knighton Railway Station, built in 1860 with subsequent minor additions and alterations, is a building of group value. It is constructed from regularly coursed and dressed rock-faced limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has machine tile roofs with fishscale bands and ornamental cresting. The roof takes the form of a truncated pyramidal shape to the right pavilion of the entrance front, and a half-hipped shape to the right part of the former station-master's accommodation. The station is designed in a Gothic style and is one and two storeys high. The entrance front has a low central section and a slightly projecting rectangular corner pavilion to the right. A former station-master’s house is attached to the left, with a projecting half-hipped range and catslide roof. The station building's pavilion features paired lancet windows with a roundel above, although one opening has been altered with a 20th-century casement. A segmental-pointed window to the centre of the section and a window opening to the left have also been altered with 20th-century casements. Rectangular chamfered openings with 20th-century casements flank a Gothic-style window in the pavilion, and there is a gabled eaves dormer in the roof slope above. Prominent bracketed open gables with elaborately cusped bargeboards and decorated pendants are above small cusped roundels in the centre range. The former station-master’s house has wooden mullioned and transomed 19th-century windows to its projecting range, with a segmental-pointed head to the ground floor window. The main range also has a mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, with a gabled half-dormer directly above. A lean-to porch in the angle with the projecting range has a pointed window with a blind trefoil head and a pointed doorway to the left. The station features mixed stone and red brick end stacks with octagonal ceramic chimney pots to the left and right of the centre range, and a similar internal stack to the left of the former station-master’s house. The platform side has similar window openings to the front, although some have been altered with 20th-century casements. A single-chamfered pointed doorway is flanked by three-light mullioned and transomed windows to the centre section. The date "1860" is inscribed on a blind cusped quatrefoil to the rear gable of the former station-master’s house. A low, flat-roofed range attached to the right of the house has doorways with segmental-pointed heads to the centre and right, and an infilled square-headed window to the left. The railway station was built for the Knighton Railway, engineered by Henry Robertson.