Culham Station Ticket Office and Waiting Room
CULHAM STATION TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM, ABINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059789
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Culham Station Ticket Office and Waiting Room
- Statutory Address:
- CULHAM STATION TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM, ABINGDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059789
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Culham Station Ticket Office and Waiting Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- CULHAM STATION TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM, ABINGDON 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:
- CULHAM STATION TICKET OFFICE AND WAITING ROOM, ABINGDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 52920 95276
Details
In the entry for:-
SU59NW CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD (North side) 2/30 Culham Station 20/05/75 ticket office and waiting room (Formerly listed as main passenger building at Culham Station)
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SU59NW CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD (North side) 2/30 Culham Station 20/05/75 ticket office and waiting room (Formerly listed as main passenger building at Culham Station)
- II*
Ticket office and waiting room. now disused. c.1844. Designed by I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway. Ashlar stone plinth; red brick with ashlar stone dressings; Welsh slate roof; to right of centre a brick ridge stack with diagonally set flue, to rear a lateral stack with diagonally set flue. 3-unit plan. Domestic Tudor style. Single- storey, 3-bay range: central bay projects to front and rear, and has higher coped roof. To right of centre and to left are C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds. To centre a wood mullion and transom window with stone surround. Wood cross-window with stone surround to right. George VI wall letter box. Wood canopy on decorative cast-iron brackets to all sides; with fretted edging, except to entrance front. Platform front: C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds to left of centre and to right. To right of centre a canted stone bay window with wood mullion and transom windows. Stone slit window to left. Interior not inspected. History: built as "Abingdon Road Station", re-named "Culham Station" in 1856. Drawing held by British Rail. Few of the Brunel-designed stations survive, and of the four built to this design only Culham remains. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.29).
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CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD SU59NW (North side) 2/30 Culham Station ticket office 20/05/75 and waiting room (Formerly listed as main passenger building at Culham Station)
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Ticket office and waiting room, now disused. c.1844. Probably designed by I.K. Brunel. Ashlar stone plinth; red brick with ashlar stone dressings; Welsh slate roof; to right of centre a brick ridge stack with diagonally set flue, to rear a lateral stack with diagonally set flue. 3-unit plan. Domestic Tudor style. Single-storey, 3-bay range: central bay projects to front and rear, and has higher coped roof. To right of centre and to left are C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds. To centre a wood mullion and transom window with stone surround. Wood cross-window with stone surround to right. Wood canopy on decorative cast-iron brackets to all sides; with fretted edging, except to entrance front. Platform front: C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds to left of centre and to riqht. To right of centre a canted stone bay window with wood mullion and transom windows. Stone slit window to left. Interior not inspected. History: built as "Abingdon Road Station", re-named "Culham Station" in 1856. Drawing held by British Rail. Reputed to be unique survival of this station design. (V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.29).
Listing NGR: SU5292095276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 29
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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