Colbert Railway Station — Parnell Street

Detached seven-bay (five-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement railway station, designed 1850; opened 1858, on a H-shaped plan with two-bay two-storey advanced end bays. Hipped slate roofs on a H-shaped plan behind parapet with rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Snecked tooled limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on coursed or snecked limestone base with drag edged dragged cut-limestone flush quoins to corners supporting lead-covered ogee-detailed cornice on blind frieze below parapet. Series of three elliptical-headed central openings approached by flights of eight cut-limestone steps with margined rock faced rusticated cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on margined rock faced rusticated cut-limestone keystones framing replacement glazed double doors having sidelights below overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sill course, and cut-limestone blocked surrounds framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (end bays) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): arcaded booking hall with moulded cornices to ceilings; carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters; top-lit double-height concourse (east) with segmental glazed roof on exposed iron trusses on moulded cornice on cast-iron pillars; top-lit full-height platform shed (east) with exposed iron trusses on engaged pilaster-detailed screen walls. Set back from street repointed drag edged dragged limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cast-iron lamp standard-topped drag edged dragged cut-limestone chamfered capping.