Stonehaven Station, Station Road, Stonehaven

Aberdeen Railway Company, 1849; extended late 19th century; altered and restored 2000. 2-platform through railway station with 2-storey, 4-bay (with later single storey wing) Italianate-influenced main offices on up platform with decorative timber awning on cast-iron columns with scrolled braces. Signal box on platform to left.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Squared, coursed dressed rubble, with bull-faced dressings. Round-arched openings, some as bipartite set into round-arched frame and some arcaded with pilaster mullions. Architraved keystoned window to centre SE. Cill course at 1st floor. Stone mullions; voussoirs.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gable to left of centre with full-height framed bipartite window at ground, and smaller similar bipartite above; recessed bay at outer left with dwarf wall to left of steps rising to 2-leaf panelled timber door and glazed segmental fanlight. Modern 2-leaf glazed door with radial semicircular fanlight to outer right at ground, window with similar fanlight in penultimate bay to right, and 2 small bipartites above. Modern glazed canopy on decorative timber brackets and stone corbels, with single decorative metal column, between floors. Set-back, single storey wing to right, with 6 irregularly-disposed windows (3 to right as narrow lights); pair of modern wall-mounted metal lamps; modern stairs and disabled access ramp to right.

NE ELEVATION: single storey gabled bay with small horizontal barred window at centre and lean-to vertically-boarded timber shed at right.

SW ELEVATION: tall gabled bay, comprising segmental-arched vertically-boarded timber door to centre at ground, and bipartite window to centre at 1st floor.

NW (PLATFORM) ELEVATION: rear of station building to left with variety of panelled timber doors and windows, and vertically-boarded timber wall extending to outer right punctuated with windows and false doors. All behind platform awning (see below).

PLATFORM AWNING: platform at 1st floor level. Top-lit timber canopy with decorative pierced timber valance cantilevered over platform on cast columns with large scrolled ironwork brackets.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows. Grey slates with stone ridge. Coped ridge stacks with decorative arrowslits and circular cans. Deeply overhanging eaves with plain timber barge boards, exposed rafter ends, decorative timber brackets and snow boards. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: seen (2006); largely remodelled retaining moulded plasterwork cornices and vertically-boarded timber dadoes to ticket hall and staircase.

SIGNAL BOX: (Map Ref: NO 86419, 86210): piend-roofed, rectangular-plan signal box comprising painted brick base with 2 blocked round-arched openings flanking shallow projection at centre, and small-pane glazing to timber frame windows to NW, NE and SW. Small boarded timber outshot to left at SE. Timber forestair to signal cabin. Grey slate.