Thurston Railway Station

Thurston Railway Station is a former railway station located on the Bury St Edmunds to Ipswich line, built in 1846 by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for the Ipswich, Bury and Norwich Railway. The building is designed in a Baroque style and constructed of red brick, featuring quoins and dressings made of gault brick. There is a band of gault brick at the first and second floors and beneath the upper window sills. The roofs are primarily covered with plain tiles, with some areas slated, and the chimneys are made of red brick with gault brick quoins.

The station has a complex plan, consisting of a three-storey central block that is deeply recessed between two narrow three-storey wings. There are two-storey ranges with one window on the left and right sides. The ground floor windows have flat arches made of gauged brick and small-pane casements. The hipped-roofed central block features a large window with wooden mullions and transoms at the upper levels. The parapet-gabled wings have tall round-headed windows with gault brick keystones, positioned above oeil-de-boeuf windows that also have four keystones. All windows are designed with splayed heads and reveals.

An open entrance porch is supported by three archways on brick piers, with the central archway being the widest and highest, featuring rusticated voussoirs. A parapet above the entrance connects the two wings and has moulded stone copings, with a shouldered segmental form that follows the radius of the arch below. Although the station building is now separately occupied, the platform remains in use and features a canopy that is cantilevered on cast iron columns. The valance at the front has been renewed with plain vertical boarding, while the side retains its original scalloped profile.