The Waiting Rooms, Wensley Station

The Waiting Rooms is to the east end of the original station built in stout Victorian railway style using locally dressed stone. Access is over a flagged patio area to the main door which opens to a large living area with lounge seating around the original Victorian fireplace and stone hearth, a dining area and a well fitted kitchen space. This was the main waiting room and there is also a rear door out to the old platform which is now a border garden with a picket fence.

Off to one side of the lounge is a large double bedroom, with original cast iron fireplace, and a large shower room with washbasin and toilet. The bedroom includes a large bay window with sitting area overlooking the platform garden, railway line and fields beyond. Off the other side of the lounge is a twin bedroom, once the personal waiting room of Lord Bolton, with original fireplace and a stairway leading down to a spacious bathroom with roll-top bath, washbasin and toilet. 

To the side of the cottage is a pretty raised border garden with flagged pathways and patio area with table and chairs. By nature of its original use the rooms have high ceilings, decorative cornice, and large windows giving beautiful light that gleams on the restored hardwood floors.

Conversion of the property has been painstaking and detailed with the essence of Victorian life captured in the general ambience through colour, furnishings and fine fittings. There are many original railway artefacts both within the cottage and the surrounding gardens but there is no need to be a railway fanatic to be enthused and absorbed by this Victorian splendour. 

The cottage provides facilities for the disabled through easy access and wide doors to rooms and entrances, kitchen area design and in the en-suite shower room. 

Sorry, short breaks not available at this cottage.

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