Farncombe Railway Station With Attached Footbridge Former Railway Station Building

GODALMING STATION ROAD SU 9745 SE (south east side), Farncombe 7/207 Farncombe Railway Station 8.8.90 with attached footbridge II

Railway station, part now commercial premises, with attached footbridge. 1897 for the London and South Western Railway Company. Red brick on Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. The station is staggered, the longer main range on north-west side of track linked by footbridge to shorter range, which is now a commercial premise. One storey with attics. In Tudor style having plinths, quoins, chamfered quoined openings, the windows flat-headed and with hoodmoulds on entrance elevations, the doorways with 4-centred arches and diagonally-boarded doors; eaves cornice; decorative ridge tiles and finials; tall chimneys with cornices and ribbing. Main range: entrance elevation: 9 bays. Projecting central entrance bay, formerly under flat canopy, has large double-door below small-paned overlight. 2-light windows, apart from 1-light window to bay 2 and window of 3 stepped lights to bay 8, all with wooden transoms and small-paned upper lights. Projecting, gabled, end bays have blind attic windows and arch-braced bargeboards, formerly with balusters in apex. 4 cross-ridge stacks. Set back on right, 3-bay screen wall with string and roll- moulded coping (part replaced); left bay projects and has entrance (to platform and footbridge) with decorative wrought-iron double-gate; blind window of three 4-centred-arched lights to right, and 1-light window further right flanked by offset buttresses. Platform elevation: original doorways and windows; decora- tive iron gates to archway on left; hipped, part-glazed, platform canopy has steel frame supported by fluted iron columns with decorative braces and fretted wooden eaves board. Footbridge of riveted steel panels, each decorated with a raised flower; wooden walkway and steps; former canopy removed. Subsidiary station range: entrance elevation of 3 bays having 3 windows, inserted door (on left), raised verges with gableted kneelers and roll-moulded coping, and one cross-ridge stack. On right, 3-bay screen wall treated as that of main range. Platform elevation has all doors and windows bricked up; platform canopy as before. This station is situated only 1.6 Km away from the pre-existing Godalming Station, Station Road (q.v.). It is said to have been built at the instigation of General Marshall, a director of the railway company, who lived nearby at Broadwater (Godalming Trust, Memories of Farncombe and Godalming with Supplement (1987), (p12). Photograph held at Station shows it in its former, complete, state.

Listing NGR: SU9760145140