Aberdour Station

Aberdour Station

Built in 1890, this is a single-storey station building with an attic storey, comprising a 7-bay U-plan structure with a ticket office and waiting room, plus an outshot. The main block is constructed of squared, snecked rockface stone with long and short stone dressings to window margins and arises, painted cills, and a chamfered base course.

The principal south-east elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a setback central section flanked by advanced wings. The central section contains a centred door with flanking windows, the right wing has two equally spaced windows, and the left wing has a former door (later converted to a window) on the right and a window to the left. A single-storey outshot to the far left, slightly setback from the main block, has a centred window. The north-east elevation has a door placed off-centre to the right with small flanking windows and a further window to the left. The north-west (platform) elevation retains an original door off-centre to the right, with two enlarged windows and a further window to the left, a small window to the far left, and a door with an adjacent window to the far right. A setback outshot to the far right contains a window to the left and a door to the right. The south-west elevation's outshot has a door to the right with a flanking window to the left.

Windows throughout are predominantly timber sash and case with 2-pane lower sashes and 8-pane upper sashes. A projecting canopy to the central section of the south-east elevation features decorative diamond pierced bargeboards. The north-west platform elevation is supported by 3 cast-iron columns supporting an apex canopy with matching decorative pierced bargeboards. Tie braces and pendants with finials crown the apices of the projecting wings on the south-east elevation.

The roofing comprises pitched slate to the advanced wings, with piended sections elsewhere and ridge tiles throughout. A centred piended dormer window sits on the south-east elevation, and a centred rooflight sits on the north-west elevation, with dormered ventilation also to the north-west. The north-west canopy possibly has a corrugated-asbestos roof with a central rooflight. Ridge stacks are present to the right of the central section of the south-east elevation and to the far north-east, both with advanced stepped detailing to the upper section and circular clay cans. Two elongated wall-head stacks flank the outshot to the south-west, also with circular clay cans.

The interior, inspected in 2012, contains an original roof to the booking hall consisting of a collar-rafter roof with king post and ball pendants, exposed rafters, a moulded cornice, and decorated corbels supporting the principal rafters.

Shelter

Associated with the main station is a single-storey three-bay shelter on the far north-west platform. It is similarly constructed of squared, snecked rockface stone with pink long and short stone dressings to window margins and arises, painted cills, and a chamfered base course. The central section has a full-height opening with flanking windows, and centred windows sit on the side elevations. The shelter has a pitched slate roof with ridge tiles and an elongated stack to its rear on the north-west.

Foot Bridge

A painted cast and wrought-iron footbridge links the south-east and north-west platforms. It features four decorative columns supporting landings at either side, each with a fluted base and decorated Doric capitals. The balusters have lattice work, though modern replacement steel risers have been introduced.

Signal Box

The North British Railway Type 2 signal box, also dating to 1890, stands to the far north-east. It is a raised single-storey structure with a basement, built to a three-bay square plan. Like the station building, it is constructed of squared, snecked rockface stone with pink long and short stone dressings to window margins and arises, painted lintels to the basement, and painted cills to the raised ground floor, with a chamfered base course. The basement has small windows; the raised ground floor has larger windows. The north-west elevation has three equally spaced blocked basement windows with windows to the raised ground floor centred above. The south-west elevation has two squat basement windows to the left and centre with raised ground floor windows centred above. The south-east elevation has two raised ground floor windows to the far right and left. The north-east elevation has a basement window to the right and a door to the left, with matching windows to the raised ground floor above. The signal box has a piened slate roof with a wall-head stack to the south-east section, brick coping, and a circular clay can.