Listed Building: BUTTERLEY STATION, DERBY ROAD (1159009)

Railway station, now museum. 1852, restored c1980 for Ambergate, Nottingham Boston and Eastern Junction Railway. Rock faced ashlar with flush stone dressings and quoins. Hipped slate roof with wide bracketed eaves and twin banded stone ridge stacks. Single storey and 4 bays, wider bays to either side projecting slightly. Chamfered plinth and rock faced sill band. Central doorcase has moulded jambs and lintel with double half glazed doors below plain overlight. To either side, semi- circular headed plain sashes with moulded quoined surrounds and bracketed sills. Similar paired windows with central banded colonette to each advanced bay. Platform elevation in similar style except side bays project further and have ironwork screen between to the front, now disused. Source: Robin Leleux 'A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain', Vol 9 The East Midlands.