Barry Island Railway Station

Railway station in Jacobethan style, red brick with limestone and yellow brick dressings. Slate roof with contrasting fishtail banding, decorative ridge tiles and moulded brick stack. Large pane sash windows, 4-pane and 2-pane, timber panelled doors.

Main S elevation to Station Approach, comprising central entrance range with advanced outer wings with stepped shaped gables; continuous cornice and plinth courses. Central range has 3 sets of paired windows with 2 over 4 panes, divided by high stone transoms, 2 of them flanking the doorway to the right with 3-pane light over. Projecting brackets and ironwork of canopy survives, canopy cover lost. Outer wing to left with paired small windows set high, central rectangular plaque with ‘B.R.’. Right projecting bay similar with tripartite windows with high transom and 2-pane over 4-pane windows and plaque with ‘1896’. Return to right with two windows and continuation of platform screen wall, wide arched double door and railings to front.

Attached to left wing is a projecting flat timber canopy and then GWR ticket office, gap now infilled. GWR ticket office in the same style, gabled to Station Approach, gable stack and projecting 3-bay canopy to left over GWR cast iron vendors screen in left hand bay. Circular 4-pane window in platform side gable survives as a frame though glass is lost. Roof has elevated ridge section with continuous ribbons of small square paned windows on either side lighting the interior.

Platform elevation dominated by wide double-pitch timber and glass canopy on supporting cast iron columns and sub-structure, curving slightly with the track and platform. Columns bear manufacturers mark ‘J. Lysaght, Bristol. 1896’. Station building similarly detailed to front elevation; right side single door with 2-pane light over flanked by windows with 2 over 4 panes, central double door to former ticketing hall with 3-pane light over flanked by paired windows corresponding exactly to the front elevation, left side double door with 3-pane light over followed by high 2-pane windows to rest rooms.

The earlier Barry Railway building retains original internal layout, with a small internal window for serving tickets survives in the partition wall between the original ticketing hall and the offices in the right wing, with a wooden shutter on the staff side. The left wing contains rest rooms with original décor; the ladies on the street side and gents on the platform side are separated by an archway, originally open to the platform but now enclosed. The later GWR ticket office retains a booth around the ticket vendor’s screen. Two squat queen’s post roof trusses are exposed, set below the rooflights.