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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! Platform 2 makes a great home-office, plus accommodation for visitors and a "hobby room" for Mark who loves playing with electronic gizzmos.
 Platform 1 is
the house, which is a very convenient 3 bedroom single-storey building, finally done the way we want it, with a super kitchen and (most recently finished) a lovely entrance hall that we are very proud of - that was all down to Mark's vision of how it should be and I freely confess I didn't "see" it, but it's gorgeous !!
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 n, at the other end of the
garden. We keep chickens and have a veggie patch - this year providing us with wonderful raspberries !
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