Penrhyndeudraeth Station, Ffestiniog Railway, Including Railed Railway Embankment Adjoining to the N

Victorian railway station, consisting of a main block containing waiting room and offices, and a U-shaped storage/service block adjoining to the SE. Of timber-studded and vertically-boarded construction, with (renewed) yellow brick chimneys to the rear of the principal block; slate roofs. Running in front of the station is the contemporary platform, partly with slate flaging. The main section is a rectangular building with fish-scale roof having projecting, scalloped eaves. The front (platform) elevation is recessed below its roof pitch thereby forming a covered verandah; this is carried on 6 thin iron columns. The recessed elevation has three entrances to the left half, that to the far L with window to its R and an affixed station clock beyond; the remaining entrances have windows to their L. 20-pane unhorned sashes and boarded doors throughout. The U-shaped adjoining block is in two parts: that to the L is an L-shaped block of boarded construction as before, and has 2 boarded doors and 2 multi-pane windows; that to the R is an L-shaped rubble block and consists of a gabled engine house to the R with sliding boarded doors; boarded door and 20-pane window to the recessed left-hand part.

The station buildings are accessed from the road via a short inclined path leading westwards between a pair of rough-dressed square piers with stone cappings; the path has a slightly battered slatestone revettment with sloped parapet wall following the incline. The right-hand (easternmost) of the piers is built against the returned revettment of the long railway embankment associated with the station. At this point the revettment is at a height of some 2m; it is of slatestone rubble and is surmounted by plain spike railings with chamfered posts at intervals of around 2m; these with pyramidal cappings. The embankment follows the road eastwards for some 86m from this point before terminating at a height of 0.50m and continuing for another 12m as a cock-and-hen coped slate wall. At 32m and 86m (the end point) are breaks in the railings for pedestrian crossing points over the railway. The railings screen around inwards at these points; plain slate posts define the gateways.