Architecture Notes

Event ID 856270

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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The L-shaped station house and ticket office of the former Gorebridge Railway Station is situated about 114m SW of the road overbridge carrying Station Road and Main Street.

It is built of red sandstone has three bays and is now in use as a public house named 'Porters'. Single storey extension with railings at roof level to SW elevation. Map evidence shows an extension is extant in the mid-19th century. No evidence of platforms in heavy undergroowth, but may survive in area immediately to N of building.

Originally built for the North British Railway Edinburgh to Hawick branch, the station opened on the 12th of July 1847. The station was closed with the rest of the Waverley Line in January 1969.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), 1 August 2006