Scarborough Excursion Station, including the pedestrian and cab ramps and attached walls

Scarborough Excursion Station, including the pedestrian and cab ramps and attached walls

The main building and majority of related structures are constructed of yellow Scarborough brick with ashlar dressings, while the platform canopies are of iron with Welsh slate and glazed roofs. The retaining wall to the south-west is of rock-faced stone.

The station has an irregular plan, with the main building aligned south-west to north-east and canopies positioned to the south-east. A pedestrian walkway runs south-west from the main building off Westborough, while the cab access area runs south-west to north-east along Westborough. A retaining wall and bench extend south-west from the main building.

The waiting room building is single storey with a chamfered plinth and decorated brick eaves cornice. It features hipped and flat roofs incorporating skylights and five brick chimneys. Many openings have been boarded over both externally and internally, obscuring their original condition. Where visible, windows are paired wooden frames with round-headed hoppers to the upper sections. Doors are a mixture of wood plank and multi-panelled types.

The south-east platform elevation comprises twelve bays with round-headed and segmental-arched openings, except bay seven, which has been altered to a flat-headed double doorway. The two left-hand openings have a double-width opening inserted across them, providing access to the pedestrian walkway. Bays five and eleven contain double-doorways under segmental arches. The right-hand round-headed opening is blocked. All openings are linked by a moulded impost band with ashlar keystones. A one-bay-deep iron and wood canopy springs from corbels at the eaves, supported by five iron columns, the four southernmost with Corinthian capitals. A triple canopy at right angles is supported on four similar but shorter iron columns with ornate spandrels incorporating the Star of David.

The north-west elevation comprises eight bays with three entrances and five windows, all under round-headed arches with decorative treatment matching the south-east elevation. The north-east return has seven bays with six round-headed door and window openings. The seventh bay contains a large opening under an iron girder supported by stone corbels with a stepped eaves cornice above, providing access to the formerly open cab circulation area.

The pedestrian ramp tunnel is attached to the rear of the cab circulation area. Its north-east exterior wall is exposed, with yellow brick to the upper sections and stepped rock-faced stone below, matching the former interior ceiling level. Further west, this wall is subsumed into a later building but mostly left exposed. The pedestrian tunnel entrance sits south-west of the warehouse building on Westborough. It is single storey in yellow brick with a stone string course, chamfered brick plinth, and decorated brick eaves matching the waiting room building. The front bay has a gabled roof of Welsh slate, and the glazed doors to the large opening are renewed.

The cab road boundary wall runs north-east from the station building's north-east return. Six large Diocletian windows separated by pilasters are visible, with a seventh partially covered by a later extension and an eighth blocked window visible from the west. Decorative treatments match the station building. The cab circulation area is laid with cobble sets and largely covered by later roofing. The former cab entrance on Westborough is flanked by brick and rusticated stone piers, with the road's south-east boundary wall visible to the rear. The cobble sets begin here but are partially obscured by a later concrete vehicle ramp. The 1930s building has incorporated this entrance within its northernmost bay.

The retaining wall along the excursion station platform is of rock-faced stone with ashlar coping topped by iron railings. A continuous wooden bench runs the length of this wall, said to be the longest railway seat in the world. The seat and back are of painted wood plank, with cast-iron fittings and branch-shaped arm rests set at regular intervals. The wall returns to form the south-west internal wall of the pedestrian ramp. A North Eastern Railway boundary marker stone sits adjacent to the corner.

Internally, the principal building is divided into three main rooms with access between them to the north-west, with three smaller rooms to the north-east end. The main rooms are partially lined with glazed bricks. Substantial stone chamfered fire surrounds survive in both the central and northern main rooms, though they have been bricked up. The central of the smaller rooms, originally the Carriage Inspector's office, retains its fireplace with a cast-iron surround within a chamfered stone surround, along with fitted cupboards. Internal doors are a mixture of wood plank and four-panel types. The roof structure is of timber and wood plank with a ridge skylight to the north-east.

The front bay of the pedestrian ramp off Westborough has an inserted ceiling, though corner corbels with springing timbers suggest the original roof structure survives above. A large internal window and doorway have been knocked through the north-east wall, providing access to the later building. The north-east wall of the ramp tunnel is of yellow brick, while the south-west retaining wall is of rock-faced stone. Stepped corbels on either side formerly provided support for the trussed roof, now replaced by timber and corrugated sheet flat roofing.

The cab road boundary wall forms the ground floor south-east wall of the 1930s warehouse building. Although the inserted ramp has covered some of the wall internally, much remains exposed on both ground and first floors, with brick either plain or whitewashed and the eaves cornice visible. The building was constructed on floating foundations, allowing the sloping cab road to survive beneath. The cobbled set road surface is flanked by the stone and brick retaining wall to the north and brick wall to the south.