Pickering Railway Station, Main Building (Including Station House And Retaining Walls)

Pickering Railway Station's main building, likely designed by G T Andrews in the mid-1830s, consists of the station house and associated retaining walls. The platforms are backed by high retaining walls constructed of ashlar stone with copings, stone buttress piers, and flush stone voussoirs facing outwards. The west platform wall features nine large, symmetrically arranged cambered arched windows and a door. These windows are characterised by closely-set glazing bars. The east platform wall incorporates a segmental-arched throughway leading to the road. A window similar to that on the west platform wall, along with two sash windows and two doors, are visible on the east platform wall, leading into the Station House. This is a single-storey ashlar building set against the end platform wall and fronting onto the road. It features a plain plinth and a low-pitched hipped slate roof with deep overhanging eaves, along with two corniced chimney stacks. The front of the station house has seven recessed sash windows with glazing bars. The throughway from the platform has a large segmental-arched entrance, with a flight of steps inside leading up to platform level and double-panelled doors. The centre of the front features an office door, set back and elevated by steps, and surmounted by a two-by-three-pane fanlight. Ashlar screen walls extend on either side of the front. The railway station forms a group with buildings to the west and east of the former Goods Yard, located on Train Lane.