The Station House and the Station Bungalow
THE STATION BUNGALOW, PLOWDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054541
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Station House and the Station Bungalow
- Statutory Address:
- THE STATION BUNGALOW, PLOWDEN
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- Date:
- 2004-06-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/12454/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054541
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Station House and the Station Bungalow
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE STATION BUNGALOW, PLOWDEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE STATION HOUSE, PLOWDEN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE STATION BUNGALOW, PLOWDEN
- Statutory Address:
- THE STATION HOUSE, PLOWDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydbury North
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3814587612
Details
SO 38 NE;
6/128
LYDBURY NORTH C.P.,
PLOWDEN,
The Station House and The Station Bungalow
II
Station building and Stationmaster's house, now two houses. Circa 1865.
Red brick with grey brick dressings, sandstone cills and lintels, and
slate roofs. Shallow H-plan station building to north-west and
stationmaster's house to south-east forming L-plan; simplified Tudor Gothic
style. One and two storeys. Plinth and decorative pierced bargeboards
with finials; stationmaster's house with semi-integral end stack to
south-west and external lateral stack to north-west, and station
building with stack off-ridge to north-west. Wooden 2- and 3-light cross
casements. North-east front: former stationmaster's house to left with
gable to front, first floor cross window and ground floor 3-light window;
left-hand return front: three windows; slightly projecting to left with
gabled semi-dormer; central panelled door with C20 glazed lean-to porch.
Former station building slightly projecting to right: projecting gabled
wings, that to left with 3-light window, that to right with 2-light
casement, and both with slit openings above. Pentice roof over recessed
centre with canted bay to right and C20 half-glazed door to left with
overlight; VR post box in wall to left. Recessed trefoiled stone panel
to rear. C20 lean-to addition to north-west. Plowden was an intermediate
station on the former Bishop's Castle Railway (closed 1935) and was
probably more elaborate than the others on the line because it also
served the Plowden Hall estate (q.v.). The Bishop's Castle Railway was
part of an uncompleted scheme to link Craven Arms with Montgomery in
1865; it operated under receivership from 1866 until its closure in
1935, but was never absorbed and remained independant to the end.
Edward Griffith, The Bishop's Castle Railway, (Kingfisher Railway
Publications, May 1983).
Listing NGR: SO3814587612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Griffith, E, The Bishop's Castle Railway, (1983)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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