Description

SOUTH YORKSHIRE DONCASTER 5096

DENABY STATION ROAD SK49NE (south end), Mexborough

3/38 Mexborough Station and Station House

IT

Railway station incorporating house. 1871 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway). Thinly-coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Elongated single- storey range incorporating parcel office, ticket office and waiting rooms and with 2-storey house at east end. Chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins, chamfered window surrounds and eaves band. House, to far right, has a rectangular single-storey bay window with 3 x I tall sashes and hipped roof; 2 similar sashes to lst-floor beneath gable with trefoil, shaped kneelers, copings and shaped apex; cross-ridge stack with 6 linked octagonal flues. Wing set back on right has 2 ground-floor sashes, small lst-floor sash and octagonal end stack on right. Ticket office to left of centre of range has bay windows and gable details as the house; on right of bay window is a wall monument to Great Central Railwaymen of Mexborough lost in 1914-18 war. To right of ticket office is a pedestrian through passage and 3 tall sashes; beyond is a 2-bay arcaded recess with segmental stone arches on an octagonal pier forming a shelter off which are 2 waiting rooms; 2 ridge stacks each with plinth and twin flues linked by cornice. Lower parcel office, at left end of range, has wide doorway flanked by plain sashes and twin-flue stack at junction with parcel office.

Listing NGR: SK4728399597

External Links

• Wikidata Q26601266

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