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Anna and Mark bought the Railway Station
in 1994. It was built in 1864 and trains ran through the Station until
the line was closed in 1964. In 1966 it was sold to a bus company, and
the rails were taken up and the central area filled in (mainly with
rubbish!). In 1990 or thereabouts the bus company was sold, but the
original owner retained the property and Platform 1 was converted into
a house and Platform 2 was used as dog kennels for breeding greyhounds.
 When we bought it, Platform 2 was derelict
- it didn't even have slates on the roof - and the inside was just stalls
where the dogs had been kept. Our first task was to strip off all the
plaster, re-plaster, and rewire the building, and, of course, replace
the 4,500 Welsh slates! Then we could move the office in.
 Platform 1 is
the house currently undergoing some major renovation - we are trying
to modernise without losing the essential character of the Station
buildings. No easy task but we believe we are getting there. One day,
if we have enough money, we will take down the false ceilings put in
by the previous occupants, and expose all the lovely architrave in
the roof spaces!
The garden (about
.5 of an acre) is the rather flat bit in between where the rails were,
with a swimming pool at one end between the platforms and a pond which
provides a home for the local newt population, at the other end of the
garden. Not much grows really well, because of the poor soil - most
of the garden has a thin layer of earth on top of concrete or tarmac!
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