Former Goods Shed at Singleton Station

DATE: this 1881 goods shed for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway was designed by T H Myres of Preston.

MATERIALS: it is constructed of red brick in English bond with a brick moulded cornice and plinth. The hipped tiled roof has terra cotta ridge tiles.

PLAN: almost rectangular, with a goods shed four bays lengthwise by two bays wide entered by double doors at either end and a small office at the south-west end.

EXTERIOR: the north-west side has four full-height pilasters dividing four wooden Tudor style mullioned and transomed pargetted panels, the two centre ones of four lights, the outer ones of five lights, with quatrefoil motifs to the transomes and panels to the mullions with incised snowdrop and bluebell decoration. The north-east end has one five-light similar mullioned and transomed panel, and a full-height double door with iron hinges to the northern bay. The south-east side has two similar central, four-bay panels and double sliding doors at each end originally giving access to the goods platform. A fretted wooden canopy is supported on large wooden brackets on stone corbels. The south-west end has full-height double doors to the northern bay and an attached lower office to the southern bay with a moulded brick chimneystack and a cambered headed six-light sash windows in the north-west and south-east sides.

INTERIOR: the interior has a wooden kingpost roof and an internal hand crane survives.