Station Tavern

The pub, in 2011

The Station Tavern is a historic pub in Grosmont, North Yorkshire, a village in England.

The pub was built in about 1835 for the Whitby and Pickering Railway, and may have been the first purpose-built building associated with that railway.[1] It was originally named the "Station Hotel",[2] and is located very close to what is now Grosmont railway station. It is noted for its views of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and for its food.[3] Alan Whitworth describes it as "architecturally, one of the more interesting buildings in the village".[2]

The pub is built of sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with floor and eaves bands, overhanging eaves and a hipped pantile roof. There are two storeys, three bays on the front, two bays on the left return, and a two-storey two-bay parallel wing recessed at the rear. In the centre of the front is a prostyle Doric porch with a frieze and a moulded cornice, and a doorway with an ogee-shaped lintel. The windows are small-pane casements, those in the ground floor with ogee-shaped heads and lintels. In the parallel wing is a coped parapet ramped up at the ends.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b "Station Tavern". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b Whitworth, Alan (2011). Esk Valley Railway Through Time. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445628172.
  3. ^ "10 Of The Loveliest Beer Gardens To Try This Summer In The North York Moors". The Yorkshireman. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  4. ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.