Former Railway Station, Chambre Park, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT71 5JB

Former Railway Station, Chambre Park, Dungannon

This is a detached single-storey and two-storey former railway station and stationmaster's house, built around 1878–1879 to designs by W.H. Mills. The building was constructed as part of the Dungannon and Cookstown Railway (later absorbed into the Great Northern Railway), which opened in July 1879 and closed in January 1956. The station comprises a single-storey railway building to the south and a two-storey stationmaster's house to the north, with a further single-storey lean-to extension attached to the north elevation. The structure is situated adjacent to Chambre Park Road, south of Stewartstown, with a grass lawn now covering the former platform to the rear west.

The stationmaster's house presents a double gable-ended front elevation facing east onto the former station entrance road. The two-storey block features a projecting entrance porch at ground level with a segmental-headed timber and glazed doorway set on a cut stone step, surmounted by a pitched natural slate roof. Windows are segmental-headed 1/1 top-hung timber sashes with cut precast concrete sills and projecting yellow brick drip mouldings. Two further small square-headed windows occupy the first floor above the doorway. The south elevation abuts the former station building and contains no openings. The north elevation has no windows; the lean-to extension is attached at ground level. The rear west elevation is double gable-ended with an irregular arrangement of segmental-headed windows as those on the front, a natural slate double-pitched roof, and a rendered chimney stack to the south.

The former railway station occupies the southern block as a single-storey structure. Its east elevation faces the former entrance road, with three segmental-headed 1/1 timber-sliding sash windows to the north elevation, each with cut stone sills and projecting yellow brick drip mouldings. The south gable elevation contains a single round-headed window with timber casement to the centre and a yellow brick drip moulding. The rear south elevation displays segmental-headed windows with dressings, though two central windows lack drip mouldings; a square-headed entrance doorway sits to the right. External walls are rendered white with a cut stone base. The roof is pitched with artificial slate, featuring overhanging eaves and verges, and two simple rendered chimneys with profiled stepped capping.

The single-storey lean-to extension has two-storey square-headed doors to its north elevation and a tall chimneystack to the centre. The east and west elevations are defined by a distinctive red and yellow brick wall abutting the stationmaster's house, now partially demolished and indicating the location of a former outbuilding.

The building's original façade was polychrome brick, executed in the same style as the contemporary Great Northern Railway station in Molesworth Street, Cookstown, also designed by W.H. Mills. Although some external detailing has been lost through the addition of external render, the overall form has been preserved. The setting has been degraded by the presence of commercial development to the west, including large concrete and metal sheds. The former railway track lies to the west of the building on a north–south axis. While the station represents a pleasing and well-composed example of a combined station and stationmaster's house, it does not achieve the architectural quality of the listed Cookstown station. The building is of industrial archaeological interest.