Former Railway Station

This is a former railway station, built in the 18th century. The building is constructed of yellow brick with decorative red brick detailing, slate roofs with terracotta ridges, and tall corniced yellow-brick stacks. The front elevation is unusually large and ornate, featuring a near-symmetrical design with two-storey, slightly-projecting cross-wings that frame a three-bay centre. The centre has two eaves gables and a small hipped gable; two tall stacks rise from the ridge, defining the centre bay. The cross-wings originally had tall side-wall stacks, with only one surviving on the left end. Gables are distinguished by punched patterns to their bargeboards and terracotta finials. Windows are arranged in singles, pairs and triplets, with moulded bricks defining the jambs, mullions, and cambered heads. They are eight-pane sashes, with the top and bottom panes smaller than those between, and have flush slate sills. The building features raised plinths, a red brick band at mid-height of the ground floor windows, and double bands at ground floor window-head height, first floor sill height, and at head-height on the cross-wings. Cambered window heads are framed in red brick, and gables include red brick lozenge patterning with crosses in the centres of the lozenge shapes. The small centre gable features corbelled eaves of yellow brick. The central bay has a 2-1-2 window arrangement, with broad double doors on the ground floor under a cambered head. The left cross-wing has a paired window above and a triplet below. The right cross-wing has a broad triplet above and three windows below, the outer ones narrower. Attached at each end are single-storey wings with half-hipped gables. The left wing has a paired window to the right and full-height double doors to the left, with a blank door in the end wall. The right wing is similar, but features an end-wall paired window. The rear elevation has similar detailing, with two half-hipped gables projecting to frame a gabled centre, though the cross-wings feature ground floor canted bays.