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History

BRANDON STATION

Railway station, built between 1844 and 1845 to designs attributed to John Thomas, and extended in the 1870s and 1880s.

MATERIALS: the roof covering is of Welsh slate, and the walls are constructed of roughly-coursed knapped flint, with grey-yellow gault brick dressings, and courses of brickwork and stone coping to the parapets.

PLAN: the single-storey building runs on an east-west axis, and is arranged in a somewhat symmetrical plan of five sections, each section stepping back from the central entrance of the former booking hall. A first floor was added to the easternmost section of the building in the 1870s or 1880s.

Illustrated London News, 2nd August 1845