Romsey Railway Station

Stationmaster's house with attached ticket office, subway and waiting room at Romsey Railway Station.

The station opened on 9 March 1847. The eastern part of the stationmaster's house and waiting rooms date from this original period. The stationmaster's house was extended westward in matching style, probably in the 1860s, and the waiting room on the opposite platform was likely built around the same time. Around 1887, a booking hall was added further east, the platforms were extended, and a subway was constructed. The buildings are designed in Classical style.

The stationmaster's house is constructed of stock brick in Flemish bond with a hipped roof featuring overhanging eaves and three brick chimneys, two of which are arched; one arch was later filled in. Due to the raised platform, the building presents two storeys on the platform side and three storeys to the rear. On the platform side, the original 1840s section has two multipane sash windows to the first floor, one to the ground floor, and an entrance. The 1860s extension has three sashes with vertical glazing bars only, similarly arranged on the ground floor with two entrances. An attached verandah features a wooden fretted canopy supported on cast iron columns. The single-storey ticket office is also of stock brick (painted to the rear) with a gabled slate roof, red brick chimney, and cambered sashes with horns. The wooden canopy extends around three sides of the building, supported on cast iron columns on the platform sides and large cast iron brackets on the other two sides.

The rear elevation of the stationmaster's house has tripartite cambered sashes to the 1840s section, with one second-floor window modified in the later 20th century. The ground floor features a cambered opening and a flight of stone steps set sideways leading to a private entrance. The 1860s extension has a cambered sash with vertical glazing bars only. The left side elevation has three similar windows to the upper floors, but the ground floor features round-headed arcading. A wooden platform extension from the 1880s is attached to the west end, linked by the 1887 brick subway to a mid-19th-century one-storey waiting room at the west end of the opposite platform. This waiting room is constructed of brick and weatherboarding, weatherboarded to the front with four sashes in moulded surrounds with vertical glazing bars only, a four-panelled door, and an open-fronted shelter to the east, all beneath a fretted wooden canopy supported on cast iron columns.

Internally, the stationmaster's house has a first-floor waiting room (opening onto the platform) with plank panelling to dado height, a dado rail, and a four-panelled door. The north-east room on this floor contains an original wooden fireplace; a further room has a wooden fireplace with pilasters and paterae. The top floor retains four-panelled doors, a built-in cupboard, and a plaster ceiling rose.