St Erth Station

St Erth Station is a railway station, built around 1852 and later in the 19th century, for the West Cornwall Railway. The station complex serves a branch line to St Ives and is largely complete and unaltered since its construction. It is built of rock-faced granite with granite dressings, featuring dry Delabole slate roofs – hipped with wide eaves to the main building, gable ends to the guards hut, and felted wooden roofs to the shelters. Axial chimneys are of rock-faced granite.

The station comprises three platforms with double railway tracks between them. The main, L-shaped building at the terminus of the branch line (north) houses offices, luggage storage, and waiting rooms. A canopy covers the entrances facing west, and another extends along the rear, connecting to a double-sided canopy that serves the central platform. The central platform is linked to the south platform by an open-sided, roofed, U-shaped footbridge. On the south platform are a small shelter/waiting room and a small stone guards hut, with masonry at the chimney end indicating a planned (but never realised) extension.

The main building is single-storey with a plinth and originally featured round-arched window and doorway openings filled with ledged and braced doors, 3-pane fanlights and 6-pane horned sashes. The west front has four windows flanking a pair of central windows and doorways, all sheltered by a canopy. Similar detailing appears at the rear exit front. Platform canopies are supported by colonnades of chamfered wood posts and have fascias with pierced and cusped lower edges and splat ball pendants. The footbridge is an iron structure with a double-pitched roof and a similar eaves fascia. The smaller, single-sided canopy on the south platform shares similar detailing. The guards hut features a 3-light mullioned window and doorway.

Internally, the station retains original carpentry and joinery where inspected. A K6 telephone box is located to the left of the west entrance front.