Former Railway Station

The former railway station, built between 1865 and 1866, served the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway. It is constructed from snecked granite and local metamorphic stone with rock-faced rusticated granite dressings, including quoins, plinth arches, and jambs to doorways and windows. The building has an eaves cornice and chimney stacks, all finished with slate roofing, a zinc roll to the ridge, deep caves and verges, and a two-course rusticated granite eaves cornice. Two rusticated granite chimney stacks are present, one with a short octagonal shaft to the south gable end, and an axial stack toward the north with two shafts. A rusticated granite plinth runs around the base.

The station is designed in a simple Victorian Tudor-Gothic style. The main block is rectangular, with a larger entrance hall at the centre, heated by fireplaces at either end and doorways leading to the front and platform, alongside a smaller heated room to the north. Smaller, single-storey blocks with pairs of end doorways are positioned at each end.

The east-facing entrance front has a five-bay arrangement (1:1:3:1), with the central three bays slightly advanced and featuring a drain roof carried forward on four large wooden brackets to form a canopy. A central panelled door, now with glazed upper panels, is flanked by narrow single bent casements with six panes and Y-bars. Recessed bays flanking the centre each feature a two-light casement with glazing bars, a central Y-mullion, and a flat roof at the end blocks, with granite cornice and coping, low parquets, and narrow single-light casements with glazing bars and Y-bars to the top panes. All openings are framed by depressed 2-centred arches, and the original casements with glazing bars remain.

The west-facing platform elevation is similarly arranged in a five-bay pattern with arched openings, some of which are now blocked as blind. A cast iron canopy originally covered the platform but has since been removed. The south end has two arched doorways, one partially blocked to form a window, while the north end has two doorways with straight granite lintels.

Internally, the station features moulded plaster cornices. A simple slate or black marble chimney piece is present in the hall, while other fireplaces have been blocked. Recent partitions divide the main hall and create a rear passage in the north room. The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway line, on which Bovey Tracey Station stood, opened in 1866 and closed in 1971.