Booking Office, Platform and Railings
BOOKING OFFICE, PLATFORM AND RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057599
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Booking Office, Platform and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BOOKING OFFICE, PLATFORM AND RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057599
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Booking Office, Platform and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOOKING OFFICE, PLATFORM AND RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
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:
- BOOKING OFFICE, PLATFORM AND RAILINGS, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunster
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 99578 44744
Details
The following buildings should be added to the list;
SS9844 DUNSTER CP STATION ROAD (East side)
3/121 Booking Office, Platform and railings (formerly listed as Railway Station in Carhampton CP)
7.10.81
GV II
Booking office, raised platform and railings. Dated 1871. Booking office: squared, uncoursed red sandstone, Bath stone dressings, chamfered plinth, quoins, plain clay tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles, coped verges, external stack left gable end, rebuilt cap, similar C20 stack left of centre. Plan: booking office and waiting room. Single storey. Track side: 2-light casements flanking half glazed double doors left, two similar doors to right, all openings with rusticated surrounds. Four bay lead roofed canopy with dog tooth wooden pelmet and similar timber clad returns carried on raking brackets. Flat roofed one bay, single storey block left. Original gas lamp holder on right return. The main features of the forecourt elevation are the steeply pitched, gabled porch with deep eaves carried on curved brackets shouldered surrounds to diagonally boarded double doors, similar shouldered surrounds to paired windows flanking door, and side light beyond. Raised platform of squared and coursed lias, tarmac covered, returned on either side of booking office about 150 m in length; spearhead cast iron railings behind and gates. The West Somerset Railway line was extended from Watchet to Minehead in 1874.
Listing NGR: SS9957844744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264753
- 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.
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