Former Railway Station Building At Atherstone Station

The former railway station building at Atherstone Station, constructed in 1847 by J.W. Livock for the Trent Valley Railway, is now used as offices. It is built of brick with limestone dressings and features steep-pitched roofs covered with bands of fish-scale tiles and plain tiles. The gables have coped parapets with moulded octagonal finials at the apex and moulded kneelers. The brick stacks at the ridge, ends, and internally have decorated octagonal shafts with moulded and embattled cornices on the left side, while the right side has diagonally-set square shafts.

This Tudor-style building is one and two storeys high and consists of eight bays. The second bay projects and has a moulded basket-arched doorway with late 20th-century double-leaf four-panelled doors and an overlight. Above the doorway is a moulded string course and a corbelled-out cross window in a stone surround. Throughout the building, there are double-chamfered two-light stone mullioned windows with quoined surrounds and late 20th-century leaded lights.

The left range is two storeys high, while the right range is one storey with an attic. It features a central gabled porch with four-panelled double-leaf doors set in a moulded four-centred arch with a hood mould and lozenge stops, along with a shield panel in the gable. Above the porch is a gabled half-dormer, and cross windows on either side have shield panels above. There is also a one-storey two-bay range with a four-panelled door and window. The right gabled range has a ground-floor window set in a shallow projection with a parapet. The left return side has an internal stack. The rear elevation, which faces the platform, is similar but the canopies have been removed. The interior has not been inspected.