Main Passenger Building Of The Former Potton Railway Station

The main passenger building of the former Potton Railway Station is a house built in 1862 by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway, which was later taken over by the Great Eastern Railway. It is constructed from yellow gault brick with ornamental dressings of red and blue bricks, along with other dressings in ashlar. The building features slate roofs and is two storeys high, with a single storey passenger wing to the north. It has sash windows and a variety of ornamental details, including brick bands, moulded dentil eaves cornices, and decorative bargeboards on the gables of the passenger building. The station house has stone coped gables and tall brick chimney stacks with moulded bases and caps. On the west side, there is a five-bay platform canopy made of iron and glass, with decorative spandrels that include the date and the letters BC. This building is a good example of railway architecture from the period and remains in relatively unaltered condition.