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
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Address
- Store, Railway Station, Cawdor Road, Nairn, IV12 4QS
- OS grid reference
- NH 881 560
- Coordinates
- 57.58017, -3.87163
- 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.
Local climate
Store, Railway Station, Cawdor Road, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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