It’s unlikely you’ve ever looked at your local train station and thought: ‘I’d like to live there’.
But if this property is anything to go by, perhaps we should all be giving train stations a try.
A cottage converted from a Victorian train station in Tavistock, west Devon, has gone on sale for £275,000.
It’s pretty dreamy, with a courtyard on what used to be the platform.
Known as The Ticketing Hall, the two-bedroom terraced home is one of four cottages that make up the Grad II-listed former station.
It might be stating the obvious, but the ex-station still very much looks like a train station from the outside, and still has original and unusual features on the inside that give away the property’s former life, including a canopied entrance way and tall ceilings in the sitting room.
The current owners are a married couple who bought Tavistock North Railway Station in 2007 and spent 10 months transforming the rundown building into four different cottages: The Porter’s Office, The Ticketing Hall, The Refreshment Hall, and The Station Master’s House.
The owners live in The Station Master’s House, of course, and for ten years rented out the other three as holiday homes before selling off The Porter’s Office and The Refreshment Hall.
Now they’re planning to permanently sell the final holiday cottage, The Ticketing Hall, with a guide price of £275,000.
Owner Colin Rogers said: ‘In 2007 my wife and I were living in Hampshire but within two weeks of buying the old railway station we fell in love with Tavistock.
‘The view across the town to Dartmoor is incredible.’
Tavistock North Railway Station was opened in 1890 and remained in operation for almost 80 years, closing in 1968.
It is built of granite from the local Merrivale Quarry with brickwork detailing sourced from Gunnislake in East Cornwall.
The slate for the roof came from Mill Hill, a quarry just outside Tavistock, and all the ironwork was made in what was Tavistock Foundry.
Colin said: ‘The London and South Western Railway stations always used as much local material as possible.
‘The Victorians were incredible for detail but they used to apply a lot of ornamentation to things where it wasn’t strictly necessary to make them look good, and even the railway stations were done like that.’
The couple’s renovation work has turned what was once a derelict space into a stylish cottage.
Inside there’s a bathroom with a claw-foot bathtub and a wet room style shower, a snazzy kitchen with solid timber work surfaces, and vaulted ceilings and exposed roof timbers throughout.
Go upstairs and you’ll find two bedrooms, one of which with an en-suite shower room.
Vikki Bennett, spokesperson for OnTheMarket, said: ‘This conversion has retained some of the station’s best features at the heart of the property.
‘This makes for an interesting but comfortable home which would make any rail enthusiast proud to live in it.’
Ben Palmer, Residential Sales Valuer for Stags in Tavistock, said: ‘I have lived in and around Tavistock for more than 25 years and worked as an estate agent in the area since 2004 so I know it very well.
‘In all that time, The Ticketing Hall is one of the loveliest properties I’ve come across and it’s been finished to an incredible standard.
‘It will make a beautiful home for whoever decides to take it on.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/08/cottage-converted-victorian-train-station-courtyard-platform-goes-sale-275000-12960218/
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