Passenger Buildings And Platforms At Settle Station

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SD 8063-8163 10/32

SETTLE STATION ROAD (south side) Passenger buildings and platforms at Settle Station

(formerly listed in New Street)

9.3.84

GV II Station building, shelter and platforms, 1876. For the Midland Railway, J C Crossley, Engineer. Rock-faced stone and slate roof, with ashlar dressings and interior walls. Plan centre around waiting room. One storey.

Facade to platform has two large gables over slight forward breaks to either side of glazed arcade, but is rendered asymmetrical by extension to left with smaller gable. Plinth ashlar band below eaves line, bargeboards, of which only that to left and right gables are still decorative. Trefoil recesses in each gable. Windows have stone mullions and rounded upper corners. and are of two lights and one light to either side of door at left side and three lights under each of the larger gables. Facade of cast iron with decorative pierced spandrels has decorative glazing and central double doors. Four moulded chimneys on the ridge. Facade to yard is plainer with central break of three bays of single lights. Windows are sashes with glazing bars only to the single light windows on either facade. At left end of yard side is small outbuilding in similar style.

Inside waiting room are fitted benches. On opposite platform is a small shelter, in similar materials and style. Facade to platform is symmetrical of five bays with two-light windows. Decorative bargeboard to right gable end only. Trefoil recess to each gable. The two platforms have retaining walls built of rock-faced stone. The stone-flagged surface of the platform supported by this wall (further back the surface is tarred but the level unchanged) is so low that the platforms may be at their original level. This is the best preserved of the stations on the Settle to Carlisle line, and retains the Station House and Tank House (qqv).

Listing NGR: SD8172563478