Rushton Spencer Station

Rushton Spencer Station, now a dwelling, was built in 1844. It is constructed of coursed and dressed sandstone rubble with a banded and shaped tile roof, verge parapets, and finials on corbelled kneelers. The building has circular and diamond shafted corniced stone stacks. Its design is complex, reflecting its irregular plan and extended frontage to a raised platform, and is executed in a Tudor style.

The front of the building features a two-storey centre block and set-back single-storey wings. The centre block is divided into three parts. A projecting, gabled two-storey porch is on the right side of the centre, with a two-light ovolo mullioned window in a projecting block surround on the first floor. Below, a Tudor-arched doorway has double, boarded doors, with a 20th-century datestone depicting a Staffordshire knot and the date 1844 above. A slightly set-back bay to the right of the porch has a small gable and stack at its apex, with a single small window on the ground floor. A slightly set-back, single-storey, parapetted, flat-roofed bay is to the left of the porch, containing a three-light ovolo mullioned casement window in the centre, set against the two-storey part. A well set-back rear bay has a single window of two lights also to the centre. The flanking single-storey wing to the right has a small segmental-arched sash window to the right of the centre and a triangular bay window to the right-hand end. The corresponding left wing has three small windows and a lower roofline to the left-hand end.

The station was built for the Leek and Macclesfield Railway and was later taken over by the North Staffordshire Railway.