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Attached nine-bay single-storey former railway station, built 1887, with gabled breakfront and projecting canopy, roofed platform and track to rear. Now in use as visitor's centre. Hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves with fascia and barge boards. Clay roll-moulded ridge tiles with three stone chimney stacks having string course and tapered capping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber canopy to entrance resting on decorative curved cast-iron wall brackets, timber sheeting to sides with serrated fringe. Snecked random coursed rock-faced ashlar limestone walls over, projecting plinth. Segmental-headed window openings and paired round-headed windows in breakfront flanking entrance, all with smooth dressed chamfered arrises and reveals, stone sills and historic timber sash windows with margin panes. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled doors with fanlight. Entrance hall with cast-iron fireplace to west end, plaster cornice and surrounds to openings, rendered walls and recent timber floor. Platform elevation as entrance elevation. Corrugated-iron roof on steel truss roof resting on station platform elevation and squared-random rock-faced stone wall opposite. End gables of platform roof with vertical timber sheeting with serrated fringe. Platform floor of recent concrete paving slabs.
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