Listing Text

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