Chirnside Station, Chirnsidebridge

This is a former railway station complex, opened in 1849 and closed in 1951. It consists of a single-story near L-shaped arrangement, incorporating a five-bay former station master’s house and offices to the east, with a piended (peaked) addition to the rear forming a near T-shaped plan, and a later rectangular-plan, piended waiting room to the west. A rectangular-plan goods shed is located to the northeast.

The eastern range is constructed with squared and snecked (finely cut) cream sandstone, featuring droved (honed) sandstone dressings. A brick-built addition extends from the rear. The building exhibits overhanging timber eaves supported by brackets, droved quoins (cornerstones), and long and short surrounds framing slightly raised margins, with projecting cills (window sills). The former waiting room is timber-clad with a brick base and overhanging timber eaves.

The southwest (entrance) elevation of the eastern range features a timber panelled door with a 3-pane fanlight in the penultimate bay to the right. Flanking this are single windows. A boarded timber door with a plate glass fanlight is located in the bay to the left, with a single window to the right and a blind rectangular panel between. The northeast (rear) elevation shows a brick-built addition projecting centrally; recessed single windows are visible in two bays to the right, while other bays are obscured. The northwest (side) elevation incorporates a large tripartite window (three sections divided by mullions) beneath the gable, and a continuous glazing row in a further addition to the left. The majority of windows are timber sash and case windows with 12 panes of glass. Grey slate covers the roofs, and brick-built corniced ridge and apex stacks rise above, topped with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present. The interior has been converted for office use.

The former waiting room’s southeast (entrance) elevation has a sliding timber panelled door in the bay to the right, and a small bipartite window (two panes) beneath the eaves in the bay to the left. The southwest (side) elevation is blank. The northwest (rear/platform) elevation, a four-bay design, includes a sliding timber panelled door in the leftmost bay and tripartite and bipartite glazing rows with 2-pane fanlights in the following two bays to the right. A boarded timber door is situated in the rightmost bay. The windows feature fixed panes of 2- and 4-pane glazing. A grey slate roof covers the structure, with a corniced brick ridge stack and octagonal cans. The interior retains whitewashed boarded timber cladding, the original sliding panelled door, and a simple timber fireplace. It is currently in use as a retail outlet.

A stone-coped, red-brick platform wall remains in place to the northwest, and the railway tracks have been removed.