Listed Building record MDR3500 - Former Bakewell Railway Station, Station Road, Bakewell

Former Bakewell railway station, Station Road, Bakewell, built c1861. 'Bakewell Station was designed by E Walker in 1863 and consisted of two single storey buildings on either side of the line.' (1) 'A good example of Midland Railway architecture, with fine quality stone and woodcarving, including the Rutland coat of arms in stone. The station building was used by the Duke of Rutland.' (2) 'Main building of the former Midlkand Railway station on the 1857 Rowsley-Buxton line, now used (1997) by Codec Combustion Development. The gritstone back wall of the eastern platform building remains as does the Goods Office, latterly used as a coal depot. The site presently forms the southern terminus of the 'Monsal Trail' using the trackbed of the railway. Other former railway land is now part of an industrial estate.' (3) From the National Heritage List for England: 'BAKEWELL SK2268 STATION ROAD 831-1/5/175 (West side) 28/01/94 Former Bakewell Railway Station GV II Railway station now offices. 1861-62. By Edward Walker for the Midland Railway. Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings; patterned Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey, 4:3:4-bay symmetrical entrance front. Advanced gabled open porch supported on ornamental cast-iron columns; decorative wooden frieze. Central double doors and large overlight flanked by large margin-glazed sashes all beneath segmental arches. Outer bays have sill band to smaller margin-glazed sashes beneath lintel band which becomes the imposts of the central 3 bays. Bold eaves projection on shaped wooden brackets. Tall ashlar end stacks and 2 ridge stacks with stepped bases and caps. Former platform side: shallow canted parapet above blind arcade of stepped segmental arches originally enclosed beneath the multiple ridges of the platform canopy; carved foliage ornament to corbelled imposts. Beneath the 2 central arches are stone columns which support smaller arches above door and window openings. INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork to ceilings. A fireplace in the former booking hall; decorative arch-braced ceiling. Some interior partitioning. HISTORY: the line opened 1st August 1862 following the Midland Railway (Rowsley and Buxton) Act of 25th May 1860; closed 1967. Notable example of Midland Railway architecture in an area of Derbyshire where railway design was influenced by the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire. Listing NGR: SK2225868985.' (4)