The Old Station At Dent Railway Station

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/50 (North side) The Old Station at Dent railway station

GV II

Railway station booking hall, waiting rooms (etc); now in private ownership and conversion as dwelling in progress at time of inspection (July 1994). Probably c1870, for Midland Railway Company; slightly altered. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with freestone dressings and steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs with pierced blue ridge tiles. Linear plan on north-south axis facing the track to the east, the main range a modified U-plan with a low wing attached at the south end. Free Tudor style. EXTERIOR: the main range has 2 short but large gabled wings clasping a low single-storey projected centre roofed at a shallower pitch: this has a central doorway flanked by large windows with geometrical tracery; and the wings each have a large segmental-pointed window with a transom and 2 mullions, all the lights so formed having margin panes, a traceried oculus above, and oversailing barge-boarded eaves. Two tall corniced ashlar chimneys on the ridge; gable barge-boarding. The wing at the south end is one low storey, with a doorway flanked by a 1-light window to the left and a 2-light mullioned window to the right. Rear: projected gabled centre like the wings at the front (window damaged at time of inspection); 2 tall narrow windows each side, all with transoms and margin panes. Wing to south has small windows of 1 and 2 lights with very small rectilinear margin panes. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Passenger Waiting Room (qv) on opposite side of track, and with Building (former workers' barracks) approx. 150m to south-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7641787481