Old Station House

Old Station House is a former railway station, now a dwelling, built in 1865 for the Great Northern Railway, with an extension added around 1905. The building features red brick and split flint work, with the flint restricted to the ground floor. It has tall ridge and side wall brick chimneys topped with 20th-century clay pots, and a Welsh slated roof with deeply projecting eaves supported on wooden brackets.

The structure has an 'H' plan layout, with a later extension to the left. The south-east elevation is two storeys high and consists of five bays, with the two outer bays advanced and gabled, linked by a shallow canopy that has a matchboarded eaves frieze. The ground floor is made of flint with brick dressings, and the central three bays are beneath the canopy, featuring a double doorway to the left and broad 2 over 2 pane sash windows. The upper sashes have curved heads that match the segmental brick arches of the window openings.

The advanced bays have coupled narrow sashes on the ground floor, and broad tripartite sashes above, with a plat band between. The first floor has four sashes in a recessed centre, with wider openings in bays two and four, and a coupled pair of narrow sashes in bay three. There are narrow windows at the first floor on the inner cheeks of the advanced bays, and a shallow canopy projects from below the first floor cills.

There are single-storey contemporary ranges to the left and right, with the left range extended before 1905. This station was formerly the principal station on the Hatfield to St Albans line and was originally designed as a terminus. The line closed in 1964, and the station is believed to be the oldest surviving Great Northern station south of York.