Templepatrick Railway Station

A detached four-bay two-storey brick railway station built on a steep embankment on the north side of the former Belfast-Ballymena railway line. The south elevation opens onto a concrete platform and is single storey over a double-height basement level. The station is rectangular on plan. Bays one and three are gabled – thus the ridge is H-shaped with additional bay to east. The roof is overhanging pitched natural slate on profiled rafter tails and timber brackets with crested ridge tiles and ogee cast-iron rainwater goods. There are two yellow brick chimneys. The walling to upper level is red brick (Flemish bond) with polychrome brick banding. The basement level is uncoursed rock faced basalt with brick quoins and chamfered brick string course between storeys forming plinth to south (platform side) elevation. There are single stage buttresses to basement corners forming an in-stepped profile to side elevations. The majority of windows are round-headed 1/1 sliding sashes with margin panes. They have heads of alternating black and red brick, chamfered brick reveals, cogged brick hood mouldings and flush chamfered masonry cills (unless otherwise stated). Where segmental-headed windows are indicated, there are no hood moulds. The south (platform) elevation has a single window (boarded) to each remaining bay (that to east bay has no hood mould and reaches eaves). The second bay from west has been opened and is now contained within a gabled uPVC projecting porch. The west elevation has a double-height vehicular entrance arch with brick reveals. To its right is a segmental-headed replacement timber sheeted door. The upper storey is blank. The north elevation is dominated by a pair of centrally located double-height arches to lower level, detailed as before. The upper storey has a window to each bay (the second window from right is segmental-headed). The left bay has a pair of segmental-headed windows (diminished in size). The east elevation is M-profile double-gabled. There is a vehicular arch to right at lower level and a round-headed window with projecting stone cill to either side at upper storey. A segmental-headed window with timber sheeted door immediately to its left is located beneath the platform at mid level, accessed by a flight of timber steps. The station is set in the grounds of a 1980s house, (unoccupied), with lawn and ornamental pond to rear. To the east side, covered in undergrowth, are the remains of a freight winch mechanism, consisting of a metal lattice tower surmounted by a wheel. A concrete platform spans the embankment to west and is supported by pre-cast concrete piers. Roof: Pitched natural slate Walling: Red brick (Flemish bond) with polychrome banding; uncoursed rock faced basalt to ground level Windows: Round-headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes with margin panes Rainwater goods: Ogee cast-iron