Railway Station, Park Road, Brechin

1847-8. Extensive later additions, 1897-8, Thomas Barr, District Engineer, Perth. Earlier section (to N), Italianate 2-storey, 3-bay section to centre with single storey structures and screen wall adjoining to left and right; predominantly architraved openings. Later single storey, 7-bay 1894-5 section to W with full length glass canopy supported on cast-iron columns and brackets. Predominantly squared snecked rubble with dressed margins; coursed squared rubble to 2-storey 1847-8 section and immediately flanking single storey sections.

N ELEVATION: to centre, 2-storey, 3-bay section; ground floor, tripartite window to centre with flanking doors; 1st floor, tripartite centre window with flanking windows; round-headed openings to ground floor; rusticated quoins to ground floor; base course, band course between ground and 1st floors, 1st floor consoled cill course, eaves band and cornice; slate piended platform roof. Adjoining to left, single storey 3-bay section with round headed openings; base course; eaves band and parapet; piended slate roof. Single storey recessed range adjoining central section to right. High screen wall runs to rear.

W ELEVATION: 7-bay, single storey block with doors to 5th and 6th bays from left, bipartite windows to remainder of bays; base course; eaves band and parapet concealing slate piended roof; breaking above centre of parapet, round-headed projection with ball finial, enclosing clock; projecting full length 6-bay piended glass canopy supported to front by cast-iron columns and spandrel brackets. Front of W elevation, hemicycle concourse bounded by squared snecked rubble wall surmounted by coping and cast-iron railings; central steps with wrought-iron overthrows and flanking cast-iron lamp standards.

PLATFORMS: cast-iron columns and spandrel brackets, formerly supporting pitched glazed canopy (no longer extant).

GLAZING etc: 2-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to 1894-5 section; to 1847-8 sections, predominantly 8-pane glazing, 10-pane glazing to round-headed windows; glazing predominantly in timber sash and case windows. Several wallhead stacks to both stages of building; some corniced rendered stone, some brick, mixture of octagonal and round cans.

FORMER GOODS SHED: circa 1848. Long, rectangular, single storey building to immediate S of platform buildings; snecked squared rubble. N elevation: 9- bay elevation; large segmentally arched openings to 2nd, 5th and 8th bays from left; to remainder of bays. Single bay E and W elevations, large segmentally-headed openings to right. To S elevation: 9-bay elevation, to each bay, paired round-headed openings (all blocked with brick) with raised voussoirs. Modern asbestos pitched roof; predominantly non-original timber-boarded doors to large openings.