Chirnside Station, Chirnsidebridge

Opened 1849; closed 1951. Single storey, near L-plan former station complex comprising 5-bay, originally rectangular-plan former station master's house and offices to E with piended addition at rear forming near T-plan; later rectangular-plan, piended waiting room to W. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone to E range; droved sandstone dressings; brick-built rear addition. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves; droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to slightly raised margins; projecting cills. Timber-clad former waiting room with brick base; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Rectangular-plan former goods shed to NE.

E RANGE, SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door in penultimate bay to outer right; 3-pane fanlight; flanking single windows. Boarded timber door in bay to outer left; plate glass fanlight; single window in subsequent bay to right; blind rectangular panel set between. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: brick-built rear addition projecting at centre; single windows in 2 bays recessed to right; bays obscured to left. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: large tripartite window centred beneath gable (narrow side-lights). Continuous glazing row in further addition to left. Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs. Brick-built, corniced ridge and apex stacks; various octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: converted for use as offices.

FORMER WAITING ROOM, SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: sliding timber panelled door in bay to outer right. Small, bipartite window set beneath eaves in bay to outer left. SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind. NW (REAR/PLATFORM) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Sliding timber panelled door in bay to outer left. Tripartite and bipartite glazing rows with 2-pane fanlights in subsequent 2 bays to right. Boarded timber door in bay to outer right. Fixed-pane 2- and 4-pane glazing in timber windows. Grey slate roof. Brick-built, corniced ridge stack; octagonal cans. INTERIOR: whitewashed boarded timber cladding. Original sliding panelled door and simple timber fireplace in place. In use as retail outlet.

PLATFORM: stone-coped, red-brick platform wall in place to NW. Rail tracks removed.