Waiting Room And Retaining Walls, Former Railway Station With Signal Box, St Fillans

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

1. A well-preserved group of former station buildings including single-storey booking office with half-timbered walls on brick base, central M-gable and bracketed canopy; Caledonian Railway Company signal box (non-standard) with round-arched windows and deep eaves; timber waiting room; and channelled concrete retaining walls to entrance of station.

BOOKING OFFICE AND STATION: symmetrical 8-bay S (entrance) elevation: advanced M-gable to centre with brick-mullioned tripartite windows and timber-panelled front door to side; gablehead slightly jettied-out with stone corbels; regular fenestration to wings. Fairly regular fenestration of doors and windows to N (platform) elevation; large decorative cast-iron brackets supporting corrugated-iron canopy. Half-timbered gable to W elevation with slightly advanced brick stack. Piended-roof to E elevation with flat-roofed ancillary building adjoining. Tall corniced brick chimney stacks with red clay cans; red tile roof with finialed terracotta ridge tiles.

SIGNAL BOX: Map Ref: (NN 69917, 24414) Caledonian Railway Company (Southern Division non-standard design), 2-storey signal box on red brick base with yellow brick quoins. 2 segmental-arched windows flanking central door at ground to N. Timber mullioned multi-light glazing to operating room with round-arched timber detailing to each window head. Glazing coninous to all elevations, broken only by brick chimney stack at centre of N elevation. Timber steps to timber porch on stilts adjoining W elevation. Piended slate roof with deep bracketed eaves.

WAITING ROOM: timber-clad structure with later corrugated-iron roof; off-centre timber-panelled door and continuous glazing to S elevation. Brick stack to N.

RETAINING WALLS: curved, channelled concrete retaining walls near entrance of station. Abutments to removed former iron bridge.