Listed Building: FORMER RAILWAY STATION AND WAITING ROOM (BUILDING NUMBER 1/47) (1272293)

Railway station and waiting room, now offices. 1888, altered C20. Red brick in stretcher bond; cast-iron columns supporting wooden canopy; later infill of vertical wooden boards. Replacement roof of corrugated iron. Brick end stacks. EXTERIOR: long single-storey range having canopy at front supported by arcade with decorative arched braces and scalloped, vertically boarded eaves; canopy partially underbuilt C20. Central entrance. Sash windows of 12 and 16 panes. Chimneys panelled and with decorative terracotta to arched openings and corbelled cornices. Returns: gables treated as pediments and with stepped dentilled bands. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: built as shelter for the Royal Family and its party when visiting the yard. Part of a group with the Royal Shelter (qv). (Sources: The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 25; Evans D: The Buildings of the Steam Navy: 1994: 30). Selected Sources Books and journals Evans, D, The Buildings of the Steam Navy, (1994), 30 Riley, R C, 'The Portsmouth Papers' in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 25