Wolferton Station The Original

The Original Wolferton Station, built in 1876, served as royal waiting rooms and is constructed of carstone with gault and some red brick dressings, covered by plain tiles with a decorative ridge. The building comprises three cells with a porte-cochere to the front.

The south-west facade facing the yard features a brick and stone plinth, carstone, a moulded red brick cornice, two horizontal bands of gault brick, and window openings with gault brick jambs and alternating red and gault brick arches. It includes a four-light sash window to the first bay and a two-light sash window to the third bay, with an external carstone stack with red brick dressings to the left. The porte-cochere to the second bay is gabled on both sides, linked in the center to the main roof by a cross gable. A wind vane finial bearing the initials "AE" (Albert Edward, Prince of Wales) sits atop the roof. The facade incorporates nine glazed panels set within a timber, studded wall above a stone and brick plinth. Returns to the side elevations have been infilled to match the main building.

The facade of the central cell, as viewed from the porte-cochere, mirrors the rest of the facade, with flanking pairs of sash windows leading to the central doorway. This doorway has a painted stone surround incorporating a stone tympanum with a pointed segmental head displaying the Prince of Wales' arms within a garter superimposed on a background of acorns and oak leaves. Double-leaved oak doors are fitted with decorative strap hinges.

The platform facade is in a similar style, featuring a central doorway with a tympanum matching that within the porte-cochere, now partly enclosed by a glazed wooden porch of railway origin. It has three-light sash windows and a reduced-width canopy with fretwork verge and octagonal wooden posts.

Inside, the central cell has a hammer-beam roof supporting arch braced collars and scissor beams above, with pine boarding. A fireplace with an oak surround and mantlepiece is located on the left, alongside pine panelling dating from around 1930. An opposing doorway to the platform has double-leaved panelled pine doors. The rooms to the left and right feature cross beams supported by corbels painted with the initials "A" (Alexandra, Princess of Wales) and the Prince of Wales’ feathers badge. Further toilet bays contain fittings from the 1930s.