Railwaymen'S Club And Premises Of Hsp Printing

Former railway station, later a Railwaymen's Club with flats above and commercial premises, built around 1865 for the Furness Railway Company. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick ornamentation and sandstone dressings, topped with graduated slate roofs.

The central block is two storeys high with four bays. It is flanked by one-storey, four-bay side wings. The design is nearly symmetrical. The centre has a plinth, and brick chequerwork beneath an impost string course. A central two-bay arcade features granite columns and a polychrome round arch with a sandstone hoodmould. A recessed area within the arcade has angled side doors flanking a blocked entrance and small window, all set beneath round arches and linked by the impost string course. An external, narrow round arch doorway is present in the left return of the central section. The outer bays have moulded sills to three-light windows with granite colonnette mullions and ashlar springers to segmental arches. The first floor has recessed panels rising into gablets above smaller two-light windows, similar to those on the ground floor. Dentilled eaves lead to a hipped roof with end stacks, the one on the right being truncated.

The left wing (now painted) has one and three bays. Bays two through four are set back and feature three-light windows as previously described. Bay one is gabled and includes a recessed panel that now incorporates a doorway where a two-light window previously stood. Dentilled brickwork is present on the eaves and gable parapet, with two truncated ridge stacks.

The right wing has original three-light windows flanking a 20th-century entrance; three single-light windows are present in bay four. The eaves and stacks mirror those of the left wing.

At the rear are 11 false gables, each with a round-arched recess.

The left return features two blocked archways.

The interior has been altered. Originally, two railway lines ran the length of the building; the left return arches served as train entrances, and the rear archways likely provided ventilation. An intact cast iron canopy with a wooden ceiling is present between glass roof lights.