Former Carriage Works And Locomotive Shed At Lostwithiel Railway Station

The former carriage works and locomotive shed at Lostwithiel Railway Station dates to 1859 and was possibly designed by I.K. Brunel. It was built for the Cornwall Railway. The building is constructed of random slatestone rubble with brick dressings, with some areas weatherboarded. The roofs are slate, with gable ends; a lower range has sections of asbestos slate and corrugated asbestos roofing. The building comprises two ranges arranged in a long rectangular plan, with entrances for carriages at each gable end. The main two-storey, eight-bay block has round-arched windows with iron frames and radiating heads on the first floor, arranged four to the left and four to the right. The ground floor has ten openings, consisting of windows and four doors, all with round-arched heads. The right-hand gable end has a tall sliding door to the left and a 20th-century external staircase to the right, leading to an upper-level rear door. The rear elevation has seven first-floor windows mirroring the front, with eight bays on the ground floor, including windows and doors located in the third bay from the left and the second from the right. Attached to the left of the main building is a single-storey, eleven-bay range, featuring round-arched openings with banded brick heads for windows and doors. The left-hand gable end is weatherboarded and has sliding doors. The rear of this range features a tall square brick stack with a stoke hole or inspection hole at its base, and eleven window openings with round-arched, banded brick heads, some of which are blocked. The interior was not inspected.