FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION

FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION, FARLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286722
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION, FARLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286722
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION, FARLEY LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER STATIONMASTERS HOUSE, ALTON RAILWAY STATION, FARLEY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07041 42689

Details

SK 0642-07 FARLEY C.P. FARLEY LANE (South-west side)

13/137 Former stationmaster's - house, Alton Railway Station GV II

Former stationmaster's house. Circa 1849. Rock faced ashlar with smooth faced ashlar dressings; hipped and gabled pantile roofs; ashlar integral end stack with bracketed gable. Italianate style; L-shaped plan, square block at the south-east corner with wings to the north and west aligned north-south and east-west respectively; entrance to the inner 3 storey building to the left with second floor storey band and pyramidal roof capped by a finial, slightly recessed single-storey wing to the right; 1:1 bays, casements with raised surrounds, bracketed openwork balcony to first floor window; Alton station served the now disused Churney Valley Railway which opened in 1849.

Listing NGR: SK0704142689

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 275132
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.