Signal Box, Auldbar Road Station

The building comprises a former station house dating from 1841, along with a later signal box and related features. The station house is a two-storey structure (single-storey to Auldbar Road) with a rectangular plan and three bays, with an additional north-facing pavilion wing. It is constructed of squared and snecked random rubble yellow sandstone, with ashlar quoins and margins. The windows are tall and rectangular, with raised margins and projecting sills. The principal south elevation is two-storeys high and symmetrical, with regular window placement except for a slightly raised ground floor window to the left, accessed by an external staircase. A central door features astragal glazing and a fanlight. The east (Auldbar Road) elevation is single-storey with three bays and regular fenestration, and includes a timber panelled door with a letterbox fanlight at centre. The north elevation has a full-width, single-storey lean-to office wing. The west (rear) elevation is two-storeys with three slightly asymmetrical bays, a central door, a smaller window above, and a low stone lean-to to the outer left. A gabled bay on the left has an advanced two-storey triangular canted bay with a slated swept roof. The windows are 12-pane, timber frame sash and case windows. The building has coped skews and chimney stacks on the gable ends, grey slates, and lead flashing. Interior details noted in 2002 include timber architectural margins and shutters to ground floor windows, boarded timber doors, a flagstoned hall with flagstone shelving, and a press. A pyramidal capped gatepier marks the entrance to a walled stable yard to the north of the pavilion wing. A Caledonian Railway signal box dating from around 1876 is located nearby. It is constructed of red brick with yellow brick quoins, and has a two-storey, rectangular plan. The upper storey has glazed tripartite fixed nine-pane windows with timber mullions on three sides, facing the track bed. There is a boarded timber door on the west side, a projecting flue to the east, and a piended roof with overhanging eaves and projecting rafters. The signal box is covered in grey slates with lead flashing. The upper level’s interior was converted into a sun room around 1990, retaining an original fireplace; the original signal lever frame and machinery have been removed. A low retaining wall made of random rubble defines the platform, paved with stone steps leading down to the track bed. A steep flight of stone steps with cast-iron railings, built upon a random rubble retaining wall, leads from the road to the platform, flanking the principal elevation.