The Old Station At Dent Railway Station

The Old Station at Dent railway station is a railway station booking hall and waiting rooms, now privately owned and undergoing conversion into a dwelling as of July 1994. It was likely built around 1870 for the Midland Railway Company and has been slightly altered. The building is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings and features steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs adorned with pierced blue ridge tiles. It has a linear plan oriented north-south, facing the track to the east, and the main range is a modified U-plan with a low wing attached at the south end, designed in a Free Tudor style.

The exterior of the main range includes two short but large gabled wings that embrace a low single-storey projected center, which is roofed at a shallower pitch. This central section features a doorway flanked by large windows with geometrical tracery. Each wing has a large segmental-pointed window with a transom and two mullions, with all lights having margin panes, a traceried oculus above, and oversailing barge-boarded eaves. There are two tall corniced ashlar chimneys on the ridge and gable barge-boarding. The south end wing is a single low storey, with a doorway flanked by a one-light window to the left and a two-light mullioned window to the right. The rear has a projected gabled center similar to the front wings, with a damaged window noted at the time of inspection, and two tall narrow windows on each side, all with transoms and margin panes. The south wing features small one and two-light windows with very small rectilinear margin panes.

The interior was not inspected. The building forms a group with the Passenger Waiting Room on the opposite side of the track and with a former workers' barracks located approximately 150 meters to the southeast.