Cliddesden Station Master's House

All three main stations on the line had similar styled station master houses. The most useful pictures I could find, old and new, on which to base this model were that of Bentworth & Lasham. Today, Cliddesden and Heriard houses have had substantial extensions added top to bottom, which obliterates much detail of the original design. Bentworth & Lasham appears only to have grown a ground floor extension at the rear. Therefore, this was the only area that required guess work on the original door and window arrangement.

The roof was the most complex part of all the model buildings to design and build. It is made in three parts; the pitched roof section, the middle section front & back and the triangular piece at the hip end. Template mock ups were made for each part and dimensions taken from them for the parts to be drawn up and coloured on the computer.

This is a substantial property for 'the management' compared to the two bedroom terrace cottage for staff. The boss even had the luxury of a flushing toilet (albeit in an outbuilding) whilst the staff made do with earth closets.

David