Store, Railway Station, Cawdor Road, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981.
Store, Railway Station, Cawdor Road, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- winter-tallow-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The railway station on Cawdor Road in Nairn was built for the Highland Railway Company between 1885 and 1891 and is part of a group of Highland Railway stations.
The main station offices, dated 1885, are a long single-storey building in an H-plan layout located on the down platform, with a low wing extending to the east. The structure is made of coursed rubble with broached ashlar dressings. It features projecting cross wings with crow-stepped gables and carved stone finials depicting a rose, thistle, and star. The west gable end facing the platform has a canted bay window. A platform canopy is supported by clustered cast-iron columns with hexagonal bases. The building has tall square and round chimney stacks and a slate roof.
On the up platform, there is a former waiting room and shelter from the later 19th century. The single-storey waiting room is timber weatherboarded and has swept, piended roofs. It features an advanced centre section with a central door, mullioned and transomed windows, porches on each gable, and panelled doors. As of 2013, it is being used as retail premises. There is also a smaller ancillary shelter to the northeast, which has a slate roof.
The west signal box, built in 1891 and designed by McKenzie and Holland in their Type 3 (Highland variant), is a two-storey rectangular-plan structure. It is timber weatherboarded with contrasting painted margins and is set on a brick base. The doorway is in a small projecting porch under a valanced lintel, which is fronted by a narrow balcony and accessed by a short wooden staircase. The track elevation features continuous 4-pane glazing that returns along the east and west gables, and it has a corrugated metal roof. Inside, there is a lever frame.
The east signal box, also built in 1891 and of the same design as the west signal box, has a single-storey appearance due to its raised platform location and does not have a balcony or staircase. It also contains a lever frame inside.
Additionally, there is a late 19th-century cast-iron footbridge with lattice girders that connects the up and down platforms and features gas lamp brackets.
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