It runs from its junction with High Road, in Beeston Square, to the town's railway station.

It ran north from the station to form a junction with Queen’s Road.

Queen Victoria's jester, W. F. Wallett lived in the cottage which he had built to the designs of the architect William Arthur Heazell at 220 Station Road from 1877 until his death in 1892 In 1904-05, Beeston Urban District Council undertook improvement and widening works on Brown Lane (which ran from High Road to Middle Street).

In 1918, Beeston Victory Club opened as a venue for ex-servicemen of the forces which fought in the First World War.

In 1998 it came under the control of Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, and it closed in 2009.