[1] Offices and workshops for the company were designed by the local architect E. G. Paley, and built between 1863 and 1865 alongside the North Western Branch of the Midland Railway.

It closed in 1908 when its business moved to the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd.[1] During the First World War the buildings were used for the internment of enemy aliens.

At one time the officer in charge was Robert Graves, who later included his experiences in Lancaster in his autobiography Good-Bye to All That.

The front which faces Caton Road consists of a long range of single-storey workshops with ventilation provided through a clerestory.

In the bottom stage is the wagon entrance with a rusticated segmental arch, above which are four round-headed windows and a clock face.