Former Singleton Railway Station

Former railway station of 1880, designed by T H Myres. The complex comprises a station house, toilet block, and water tower.

STATION HOUSE

The principal elevation faces south. The eastern end is a two-storey domestic house, while the western end contains a single-storey ticket office and waiting room. The rear elevation faces the raised platform embankment to the north.

Construction is in red brick laid in Flemish bond with stone detailing, timber windows, applied timber framing, hung clay tiles, and a clay tile roof. Ground floor openings have chamfered brick architraves and various stone detailing. The second floor and western fascia feature applied timber framing and pargetting, though the second floor is now clad with alternating bands of plain and fish-scale tiles. Several stained-glass windows and a cast-iron canopy are decorated with circles and stars.

The domestic eastern end has a high-pitched projecting gable on its south-facing elevation. Moulded barge-boards frame a flower motif and are decorated with square bosses. The first floor contains a central timber oriel with a four-pane transom window, supported on moulded timber brackets. The ground floor has a central stone transom window with stained glass to the top row of panes. The jettied first floor either side is supported on pairs of moulded timber brackets with pendants. A further bay to the west has a pitched roof and a three-over-two sash window with multiple panes and bullseye glass to the upper panes. The domestic entrance at the east end is a five-panel timber door set beneath a porch supported by decorative timber brackets, surmounted by a segmental fanlight. East of this stands a single-storey brick extension with a three-over-four sash window.

The eastern elevation has a ground floor four-pane window with stone transom and architrave, surmounted by two stained-glass windows. The rear elevation, facing a concrete bank, has functional casement windows to the ground floor. First floor gable and window treatment repeat the principal southern elevation. Tiled roofs have clustered-brick chimney stacks. Drain pipes are square-sectioned cast iron with makers' stamps on connecting sections.

The western end contains a four-bay single-storey waiting room and ticket hall. The south-facing elevation is red brick with a stone plat band. Timber entrance doors are offset and surmounted by a three-pane window; each door has a round-headed and circular window above a solid panel. Three sash windows with three-over-two panes over two large panes sit between chamfered-stone headers and cills, with stained glass to the upper lights. At the far west is a two-pane casement window in a chamfered stone architrave, surmounted by two stone panels decorated with foliage around shields—the left bearing 'LB&SCR', the right dated 'AD 1880'. A cast-iron canopy runs the full length of the south elevation, supported by decorative cast-iron pillars with Corinthian capitals and star-decorated spandrels. The lean-to roof is corrugated iron supported by timber beams, with an applied timber-framed fascia decorated with pargetting in a pot-plant motif. The western elevation is obscured by a late twentieth-century timber extension. The northern elevation is functional. The waiting room roof joins the station house at its east end and is hipped to the west, with crested ridge tiles.

Interior: the hallway has plain terracotta tiles beneath a simple gothic arch. Dog-leg timber stairs with stick balusters under a square rail and Gothic-style newel posts lead to the first floor. Joinery throughout is plain but of good quality, including cornicing, high dado rail, deep skirting, and four-panel doors. Principal rooms have slate fireplace surrounds painted in marble effect. The kitchen has a beige tiled fireplace surround decorated with foliage motif. Bedrooms are plain with removed fireplaces. The waiting room is functional, with an internal ticket window featuring timber architrave and corbel-supported shelf.

TOILET BLOCK

Single-storey building in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with timber windows, applied timber framing, and clay tile roof. The entrance front faces east.

The building is symmetrical, formed of three bays beneath a hipped roof surmounted by crested ridge tiles. Timber entrance doors with three panels stand under applied timber framing continuing as a fascia under the eaves, repeating a pot-plant motif. Either side are sash windows with three-over-two panes over two large panes; upper panes have stained glass. Windows are surmounted by brick segmental arches. Other elevations are similar but predominantly blind.

Interior: the space is functional and has been converted to changing rooms and showers.

WATER TOWER

Narrow two-storey tower in red or stone-coloured brick laid in Flemish bond, with metal-framed windows. The ground floor is very tall; the first floor is more domestic in scale. The tower stands south of the former railway track. A chimney stack on the west side is linked at the base and mid-height by a brick supporting arch.

The tower is symmetrical and Classical in style. The full-height southern elevation has two bays with two windows to each storey. Round-headed windows contain metal frames of three-over-five panes plus six further panes forming the round-headed element; no glass survives. Window openings have stone-coloured brick arches and cills set into recessed brick panels forming corner pilasters. A band of cogged bricks runs between ground and first floor levels. The northern elevation is set into the railway bank with only the first storey visible, along with an iron guardrail. Ground and first floor access from the east is via round-headed entrances, of which only timber architraves survive. Supporting iron beams for the water tank remain intact; the tank itself, which would have been covered in tin sheet to form a roof, has been removed. The chimney stack has a stone moulded cap and is square in plan, tapering as it rises above the tower roof.