Barnstaple Town Station Including Railings And Gates At North End

Barnstaple Town Station, now a restaurant, was built around 1898 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, which closed in 1935. The building is constructed from squared and coursed stone rubble, featuring window and door surrounds, quoins, copings, and chimneys made of dressed limestone. It has a slated roof with red ridge-tiles, and the gables, including those of the taller central section, have high parapets with kneelers. There is a chimney on each gable of the central section, two on the ridge of the right-hand section, and one on the ridge of the left-hand section. The station has a long rectangular plan and is one room deep, with a single storey.

The front facing Castle Street has a 12-window range and two doorways, designed in a simple Tudor style. The windows are flat-headed with chamfered surrounds and wooden casement frames with glazing bars. There is a slightly projecting, chamfered plinth. The taller middle section, which is slightly set forward, features a wide central doorway flanked by a pair of windows. The doorway has half-glazed double doors and is accessed by a flight of six wide stone steps with rounded corners. There are a pair of stone corbels on either side of the doorway, which likely originally supported a canopy.

On the platform side, there is an original wooden canopy supported by iron trusses with decorated brackets. The original iron railings and gates are located at the right-hand (north) end of the building. The interior has been wholly altered.