Station Tavern

The Station Tavern is a public house built around 1835 for the Whitby and Pickering Railway Company, initially known as The Tunnel Inn. It features bordered tooled sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with an ashlar porch and tooled dressings. The building has timber boxed eaves and a pantile roof, designed with a central-entry plan and a parallel wing offset at the rear. It is two stories high with a three-window front. The entrance consists of a four-panelled door, partly glazed, beneath an ogee-shaped lintel, situated in a prostyle Doric porch that has a frieze and moulded cornice. The windows are large-pane casements with painted stone sills; those on the ground floor are ogee-headed and positioned beneath ogee-shaped lintels. There are first-floor and eaves bands, and the hipped roof has overhanging eaves with end stacks rising from the base. The left return of the building is also two stories high with two windows, and it includes a two-storey, two-window parallel wing set back on the left. The detailing of this wing matches that of the main part, although it has altered windows on both floors and a flat coped gable-end parapet that ramps up on each side. This structure is significant as it was possibly the first purpose-built building for the Whitby and Pickering Railway.