Grosmont Station And Attached Yard Wall

Grosmont Station and its attached yard wall date from circa 1846 and were designed by G.T.Andrews, the architect for the York and North Midland Railway Company. The station is constructed from hammered sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan, incorporating an outshut and a yard to the rear. The main two-storey section has a two-window range, complemented by a two-storey, one-window gabled crosswing to the left. The front features paired board doors within ogee-arched surrounds. A mullioned window, featuring two shouldered lights, a flat lintel, and a two-centred relieving arch, is located to the right. The crosswing has an offset diagonal buttress to the left, and a ground floor window with three shouldered lights, a flat lintel, and a two-centred relieving arch. First-floor windows throughout are mullioned, with two lights and shallow ogee heads; the crosswing window has a two-centred relieving arch. All openings are quoined. Plain bargeboards and a finial adorn the crosswing gable.

The platform front includes a one-storey, four-bay range to the right of a one-window gable wall, which is part of the main front. The gable wall features a four-light canted bay window on the ground floor, with shouldered lights and a half-hexagonal hipped roof with embattled eaves. Above this is a window with two ogee-headed mullioned lights, a flat lintel, and a two-centred relieving arch. The one-storey range has two chamfered Tudor-arched doorways with board doors centrally placed, alongside a two-light and a three-light mullioned window, both with shouldered lights and overhanging eaves supported by shaped brackets. A conical stack is positioned at the right end.

The rear of the building features gable ends with decorative bargeboards and finials. Three conjoined octagonal chimney stacks rise from the rear of the crosswing and at the junction of the main building and platform ranges. The yard wall is approximately 2.75 metres high, with sloped coping that steps up to the outshut. A gateway with a plain lintel and board door is set within the back wall. Lean-to buildings erected against the exterior of the yard wall are not considered to be of special interest.

Inside the Ladies' Room, features include a plain chimneypiece with a bracketed shelf and a cast iron firegrate, alongside a moulded dado and cornice. Original ironwork complements the panelled shutters and doors.