1-4 Station Cottages

The row of four cottages, numbered 1-4 Station Cottages, dates from the 18th century and is situated on a narrow strip of land between the north platform and the garden of the former station master’s house. The cottages are built of gault brick with brick dressings and a slate roof. They are arranged as a long two-storey row, with a low-pitched hipped roof. Two symmetrically placed wide ridge stacks are present, each featuring oversailing courses and circular pots. A brick plinth is visible, along with brick string courses below the ground-floor and first-floor window sills. The central cottages (Nos 2 and 3) have slightly projecting gabled entrance porches with four-centred arch openings, flanked by narrow windows with cambered brick arches. Above the porches, a first-floor window is positioned directly under the eaves. The windows and doors of Nos 2, 3 and 4 are of uPVC, with the exception of No 1, which retains its original timber sash windows; these have eight-over-twelve panes on the ground floor and four-over-eight panes on the first floor. The return elevation of No. 1 includes a gabled porch, an original panelled door, and a blind window opening on the left. Two first-floor windows have been recently opened up and fitted with three-over-three pane timber sashes. The return elevation of No. 4 is similar, but its porch has been removed to make way for a narrow, single-storey 20th-century brick extension, which is considered to be of no special interest. Each cottage has a back door and is lit by either two or three windows, some of whose openings have been altered. No. 1 retains its original four-panelled door. The interior of No. 3, which was inspected internally, retains its basic two-room plan on each floor, although a bathroom has been added on the first floor. The staircase has been replaced and the fireplaces have been blocked up. Nos 1 and 2 are said to retain original doors and a fireplace respectively, but otherwise the interiors are thought to have been modernised. A small outside lavatory building, constructed of gault brick and retaining an original plank and batten door, is located to the east of the row. A timber lean-to between this building and the extension to No. 4 is not of special interest.