Inverurie Railway Station, Station Road, Inverurie

Inverurie Railway Station, built in 1902, is a three-platform junction station for the Great North of Scotland Railway. It is constructed from heavily stugged ashlar stone with ashlar margins, an eaves course, a battered rock-faced plinth, a cill course, and roll-moulded arrises with stone mullions to the road elevation. Openings are segmental-headed and voussoired, with a timber-fronted awning supported by two cast-iron columns featuring decorative spandrels over the road elevation.

The east (road) elevation is symmetrical, composed of a 12-bay, piended main block with slightly lower, flanking 4-bay projections. The central four bays have a glazed cast-iron canopy with decorative cast-iron braces on stone corbels. A deep-set, part-glazed, two-leaf timber door is positioned to the right, flanked by bipartite windows, with further bipartite windows to the left. Below are single windows, and a diminutive triangular and cusped roof-ventilator is present in the flanking bays. The outer bays feature single windows and a 3-stage, ogee-domed polygonal ridge ventilator, with a decorative cast-iron weathervane to the outer left.

The west (platform) elevation, with all its openings segmental-headed, is irregular, featuring a variety of timber doors, glazed fanlights and windows. A near full-width canopy projects from the taller main block, centrally. An Alexander Gill station clock and a small, wall-mounted decorative cast-iron water fountain are located in the bays to the left of centre, beneath the canopy.

The windows feature 4-pane and plate glass glazing with decoratively-astragalled and 4-pane pivoting top lights, all set in timber frames. The roof is covered in grey slates with snow-boards. Coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews with square skewputts, decorative ridge tiles, and finials are also present.

The refurbished interior features decorative plasterwork to the coomb ceiling of the ticket hall and broad segmental arches with part-glazed timber screen walls. The Earl of Kintore’s waiting room includes a broken apex pediment over a two-leaf, part-glazed timber door, a parquet floor, a boarded dado below panelling, a dentilled cornice at picture rail height, a timber fireplace, and decorative plasterwork. A cast-iron footbridge with painted diamond mesh and contrasting rails provides access across the railway.