Railway Station, Palma Place, Melrose

The Railway Station at Palma Place in Melrose opened in 1849 and serves as a two-platform through station with main offices located on the down side. The office building is designed in a Jacobean style and has an L-shaped plan with a wing extending to the west.

The north front features a two-storey main block with three bays, where the right-hand bay is advanced and includes a canted bay topped with Jacobean cresting that rises through the first and second floors, culminating in a curvilinear gable. The other windows are either two or three lights, with mullioned and transomed designs. There is a two-bay porch in the re-entrant area, supported by chamfered piers and topped with a pierced parapet, which is mirrored at the wallhead. The east side also has a curvilinear gable.

Access to the down platform is provided by stairs against the west gable; the lower flight has a parapet to the west, while the upper flight continues through an arch in the west wing, which is two bays wide, two storeys high, and lower than the main block. The first floor of this wing features a pair of projecting two-light mullioned and transomed windows that extend up to curvilinear wall-head gablets.

Further to the west, there is a screen wall with a crested parapet that retains the embankment and conceals the platform awnings. The north front and screen wall are constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are rendered. The roof is slated, and the octagonal stacks have been rebuilt in brick, rectangular in shape and without copes.

The platform awnings are made of wood, sloping towards the track and supported by cast-iron columns with lotus capitals and curved wooden brackets that carry the overhang. Each platform features 14 bays of these awnings, which now have mutilated cupolas at the center bays. On the up side, there is a single-storey cast-iron framed wooden goods shed with a broad, piended slated roof that shares a common wall with the up-platform awning.