Railway Station

This is a Grade II listed railway station built in a classical style. It features a two-storey, stepped front with 13 bays made of ashlar stone, topped with a parapet over a wide cornice and a plain entablature, and set on a granite plinth. The station has three-bay end pavilions with pilaster strips derived from the Tuscan order. The central bays are slightly advanced and adorned with festoons on the stepped parapet, as well as bracketed pedimented doorcases that contain double panelled doors.

To the left end, there is a truncated square clock tower with pedimented and pilastered frames for the clock faces on each side, topped with an octagonal cap. The central three bays have first-floor cills and are flanked by paired gated windows with marginal glazing bars. Most of the glazing is modern, except for the tripartite office windows at the left end, which retain their original design. The station was formerly equipped with a canopy from the Great Western Railway.

The left side mirrors the three-bay design with an advanced central bay and small pane metal frame windows. There is a two-bay range at the rear and a single-storey extension beyond that includes a two-bay loading area. The right side has been modernised similarly, and a long brick platform building extends to the rear, featuring lean-to offices and arched openings, mostly with freestone architraves, as well as a three-bay covered loading area towards the front. There was formerly a platform on the southwest side.

Inside, the rectangular concourse retains classical details, including a Greek fret frieze and paterae along the entablature. The ticket office protrudes to the northwest below a splayed bay window, which is topped with a pediment and cavetto moulded architrave. The concourse has glazed roofs that run transversely to the sides. The 14-bay platforms are covered by an overhanging canopy on the southwest side, supported by cast iron columns and trusses from Greens Foundry, dating to 1901, which feature stepped lancet tracery and quatrefoils in the spandrels. The northeast platform has plainer details.