The Gables

The Gables is a former station hotel and tavern built around 1841, likely designed by I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway. It features painted red brick with stone dressings and has slated roofs with two steeply pitched gables on each facade, complete with projecting eaves and bargeboards. Tall brick chimney stacks rise from the ground floor through the gables. The building has a square plan with two bays on each facade and stands two storeys high with an attic.

The main facade is symmetrical, showcasing a Tudor-arched entrance flanked by transom and mullion windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a narrow vertically set window above the entrance. Similar narrow windows are present in the attic. The other facades maintain a similar style, featuring half-glazed doors with intersecting tracery in Tudor-arched doorways. The platform elevation shows remnants of a canopy and is flanked by two canted bay windows.

Inside, the building retains a staircase with turned newels and original panelled doors. This structure is an early example of a station hotel, with the platform, which only had a simple shelter, accessed via a sloping drive. Originally named Wallingford Road, it was renamed Moulsford station in 1866 following the opening of the Wallingford Branch Line.