Carrickfergus Railway Station, 10 Victoria Street, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, BT38 8AQ

Carrickfergus Railway Station is a detached, single-storey Arts and Crafts-styled railway station built in 1895 to designs by Barkeley D. Wise. It is located at the north end of Victoria Street and the south of Carrickfergus Avenue.

The main station building is rectangular on plan with an offset projecting bay facing south. It has a gambrel clay tile roof with roll-top red clay ridge tiles, and red brick chimneystacks with corniced caps. The walls are rendered with applied decorative timber framing over a raised Flemish-bonded red brick plinth. A diminished hipped brick return projects to the west gable, with a catslide canopy to the north. Replacement metal gutters with rectangular downpipes (marked "ALUMASO") are fitted throughout. Windows are painted timber mullion-and-transom casements with modern metal grilles. Doors are square-headed.

The principal south elevation is dominated by a projecting bay with an oriel window on a brick corbel, surmounted by a multi-light casement with central cartouche and a fixed timber sign. The remainder of the elevation is divided by projecting brick chimneystacks with a variety of mullion-and-transom casements. Both right and left cheeks are accessed by double-leaf diagonally sheeted timber doors; the right cheek has a flight of concrete steps with a curved brick railing and stone coping, while the left cheek has a ramp instead of stairs and a non-curved railing.

The west gable is abutted by a lower return with a hipped roof, timber boxed eaves, and brick walling with three horizontal slit windows. The right cheek of the return has a timber panelled door accessed by concrete stairs with a brick railing. The left cheek has a moulded sill-course and moulded six-panelled timber door to the right, with a round-headed window to the left. The east gable is detailed as the west gable.

The rear north elevation opens onto the platform and is detailed similarly to the return, contained under a deep overhanging canopy supported on decorative cast-iron columns with Composite capitals and filleted spandrels. The soffit has exposed timber roof structure. The left section is enclosed by modern glazing, while the right section has two raised-and-fielded six-panelled doors with overlights and four windows.

The station is situated north of the town centre. A two-storey signal cabin stands to the west. An additional North Platform is located to the north and connected to the station by a north-south subway tunnel with modern lift pavilions on both platforms.

The North Platform is sheltered by a freestanding canopy with a pitched clay tile roof and exposed timber roof structure on cross-braced queen post trusses, supported on chamfered timber piers with scalloped fascias. It contains modern glazed partitions and an information kiosk. The subway entrance on the North Platform is enclosed by decorative cast-iron railings. The subway is entered at four points by stairs located north and south of the station, internally and from the North Platform, as well as by both lifts. Subway walling is white glazed brick with green glazed brick trim to corners, arches, and railings; floor tiles are replacement.

The signal cabin has a hipped roof with deeply projecting timber sheeted box eaves with brackets, replacement moulded metal gutters, and a brick chimneystack with moulded cap to the southeast corner. Walling is English Garden Wall-bonded brick over a plinth with a moulded stringcourse between ground and first floors and engaged pillars to ground floor corners. Windows are six-light timber horizontal-sliding sashes with metal security grilles over timber sheeted panelling. The principal north elevation first floor projects on carved timber jetties and has three windows. The east elevation has two windows at the right end. The rear south elevation is blank without stringcourse or plinth, with two brick-blocked segmental-arch-headed windows on the ground floor. The west elevation is detailed as the east but the ground floor has a single panelled door to the left, while the first floor has a projecting timber porch accessed by an external timber stair, a moulded six-panelled door to the left, and a single window to the right.