Farncombe Railway Station With Attached Footbridge Former Railway Station Building

This is a railway station, built in 1897 for the London and South Western Railway Company, and incorporating an attached footbridge. Part of the building is now commercial premises. The station is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof. The main range is longer and located on the north-west side of the track, linked to a shorter range by the footbridge. The building is one storey in height with attics, and designed in a Tudor style. It features plinths, quoins, chamfered quoined openings, flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds, doorways with 4-centred arches and diagonally-boarded doors, an eaves cornice, decorative ridge tiles, finials, and tall chimneys with cornices and ribbing.

The main range's entrance elevation has nine bays. A projecting central entrance bay, originally sheltered by a flat canopy, has a large double door and a small-paned overlight. The windows are primarily 2-light, with the exception of a 1-light window in the second bay and a three-stepped light window in the eighth bay, all incorporating wooden transoms and small-paned upper lights. Projecting, gabled end bays have blind attic windows and arch-braced bargeboards, previously ornamented with balusters in the apex. There are four cross-ridge stacks. To the right, a set-back screen wall features a string and roll-moulded coping (partially replaced). The left bay of this screen wall projects and contains an entrance to the platform and footbridge, alongside a decorative wrought-iron double-gate. A blind window with three 4-centred-arched lights sits to the right of the gate, alongside a 1-light window flanked by offset buttresses. The platform elevation retains original doorways and windows, with decorative iron gates to an archway on the left. The hipped, part-glazed platform canopy has a steel frame supported by fluted iron columns with decorative braces and a fretted wooden eaves board. The footbridge is constructed of riveted steel panels, each decorated with a raised floral design, with a wooden walkway and steps. A former canopy on the footbridge has been removed.

The subsidiary station range features an entrance elevation of three bays with three windows and an inserted door on the left. It has raised verges with gableted kneelers and roll-moulded coping, plus a cross-ridge stack. A three-bay screen wall to the right mirrors the main range’s design. The platform elevation has all doors and windows bricked up, and the platform canopy is similar to the main range’s. The station is located approximately 1.6 kilometers from the earlier Godalming Station. It was reportedly built at the request of General Marshall, a director of the railway company who resided nearby at Broadwater. A photograph held at the station depicts the building in its original, complete state.