Portslade Railway Station And Walls Abutting

Portslade Railway Station, built in 1857, is a railway station that now includes offices, with the north platform building currently disused. Designed in a Tuscan villa style, it features a rendered exterior over brick and shallow pitch roofs made of asbestos slate, hipped at the wings. The eaves are overhanging and adorned with a modillion cornice, while tall rendered stacks with moulded caps rise above.

The station comprises two blocks on either side of the railway line, with the larger block to the south housing the booking hall and an adjoining pavilion to the east, which is believed to have been the station master's house and is now used as offices. The main structure is U-shaped with a two-storey central range and a single-storey pavilion, displaying a symmetrical arrangement of 2:5:2 bays. All windows are sash without glazing bars, featuring moulded entablatures with keystones, alternating between round-arched and cambered heads. The ground floor includes a continuous entablature and paired windows in the outer bays of the central range, with an inserted doorway to the left that mirrors the booking hall entrance, complete with a fanlight and double half-glazed doors. The pavilion has similar window designs and is connected by a lower two-bay corridor, which has a square-headed entrance and one window in the re-entrant angle.

The platforms are supported by cast-iron columns with simple decorative spandrels that hold canopies over the 'up' and 'down' lines. Originally, there was a single-storey canopy on the facade linking the two wings of the booking office. The walls are rendered, with the west wall featuring a three-bay design that includes segmental-headed blind arcades, flat coping, square piers, and shallow buttresses on the exterior elevation. Portslade Station first opened in 1840 at a slightly different location but closed seven years later. The current building from 1857 has seen little alteration.