Central Station, West Canal Street, Coatbridge

Central Station, located on West Canal Street in Coatbridge, was likely designed by George Graham in 1899. This former railway station building, now a restaurant, is a two-storey structure (single-storey at platform level) with three bays, showcasing a freestyle architectural style. It is constructed of red brick, featuring sandstone ashlar long and short quoins and dressings. The building has an ashlar base course, a string course to the right at impost level on the ground floor, and bracketed overhanging eaves. The prominent gables are adorned with decorative semicircular broken pediments and stone skews, topped with finials at the gableheads. The windows are mullioned.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, the gabled outer bays feature a slightly advanced left bay. There is a round-arched doorway at the center with a banded architrave, and a round-arched window to the right on the ground floor. The upper floor has mullioned bipartite and tripartite windows, with an applied broken scrolled pediment over the outer bays. A decorative plaque rests on the ground-level string course.

The northeast elevation consists of two bays, with the gabled right bay advanced and a single-storey extension to the outer right. A four-step flight leads to a bracketed pediment in the projecting bay, with a bipartite window above and a ground-level single door to the right. The left bay features a large transomed and mullioned tripartite window at ground level, topped with a cornice. The upper floor has a single and double window, with a pedimented bipartite window breaking the eaves of the single-storey projection.

The northwest elevation displays irregular fenestration and a gabled central bay. The building has modern timber doors and windows, with four-pane upper sections and plate glass lower sections in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring ashlar skews and skewputts, along with gablehead, wallhead, and ridge stacks with clay cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Inside, the building has been significantly altered for its current use. The property is enclosed by low coped stugged rubble boundary walls and decorative iron railings, with square plan gatepiers topped with pyramidal capstones.