Eggesford Station

Eggesford Station is a railway station built around 1850 for the London and South Western Railway, and enlarged around 1890. It was likely designed by Sir William Tite. The building is constructed of local mudstone rubble with Hatherleigh and Beerstone ashlar detailing, stone stacks (one original, two replacements in brick), and a slate roof.

It presents a double-fronted appearance, facing both the main Exeter-Barnstaple road to the northeast and the railway platform to the southwest. The plan includes a waiting room and luggage/parcel store on the northwest side, a central ticket office with a higher roofline, and a station-master’s house as a two-room crosswing projecting forward and rear. A third room was added to the house around 1890 at the southeast end, aligned with the main block and with its own stack. The luggage/parcel office and waiting room are single-storied, while the house and ticket office are two-storied. The station is in a restrained Tudor Gothic style. Both fronts have deliberately asymmetrical arrangements.

The northeast front has a 2:1:1:2 window arrangement. A projecting gabled porch is located immediately to the right of the house, featuring a Tudor arch and an ashlar plaque with a bas-relief heraldic achievement. The southwest front features a 1:1:1:2 window arrangement, with canted bay windows to the waiting room and original section of the house. A dormer window was added to the extension around 1890, and another above the ticket office. Most windows are sash windows, many with glazing bars and horns; the reveals are chamfered ashlar and the openings have soffit-moulded floating cornices. Gable ends have shaped kneelers and coping with a single step.

The interior retains some plain Victorian joinery detail. Historical records show the station before the later extension was built.