Former Station Masters House, Bingley Station, Wellington Street, Bingley

Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 15 Jun 2022

The present Station was opened on 24th July 1892 designed by the Midland Railway's chief architect, Charles Trubshaw, presumably including the Station Master's house. Having stood empty and deteriorating from the 1990s it opened on 9th January 2021 as The Station Masters House fish and seafood bar, restaurant and takeaway. The building's previous owners, Whetley Mills Limited, who paid £275,000 for the site in May 2006, put the building up for sale in June 2017. A planning application to demolish outhouses to enable extensions to provide a retail unit, hot food takeaway and five flats was refused by Bradford Council in 2008. Bingley Property Holdings carried out preliminary refurbishment work in early 2018 and planning was applied for by Hopscotch Taverns. The bar opened later due to the Government COVID-19 restrictions at the start of 2021. The entrance to the restaurant and bar is located at the station side of the building, whilst the fish & chip takeaway is accessed from the Park Road side. The 2019 Grade II Listing of the station appears to show on the map that a very small part of the house on Park Road is included in the listing but the text appears to ignore this.

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