Gowran Railway Station — TALBOTSHILL

Detached nine-bay single-storey railway station, opened 1852. Closed, 1963. Now in residential use. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks on unpainted rendered bases having carved cut-limestone coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Yellow brick Common (third course headers) bond walls with tooled cut-granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, yellow brick voussoirs, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick voussoirs, and timber panelled doors having overlights. Set in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site, and platform along front (north) elevation having random rubble stone retaining wall with cut-granite coping. (ii) Detached two-bay double-height railway goods store, built 1852, to north originally having pair of camber-headed carriageways. Renovated, pre-1963, with carriageways remodelled. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves. Irregular coursed squared limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins to corners. Pair of camber-headed carriageways remodelled, pre-1963, accommodating camber-headed window openings with no sills, fixed-pane fittings, and tooled cut-limestone surrounds to outline of carriageways incorporating voussoirs. Square-headed door openings to side elevations with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors.