Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station
HATCH BEAUCHAMP RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060373
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- HATCH BEAUCHAMP RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060373
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- HATCH BEAUCHAMP RAILWAY STATION, 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:
- HATCH BEAUCHAMP RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatch Beauchamp
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30502 20398
Details
HATCH BEAUCHAMP
Station Road ST 3020-3120 (East side, off) 12/30 . Hatch Beauchamp Railway Station
II
Former railway station. c1865 for the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Single storey. Symmetrical 5-bay elevation, the end bays projecting slightly. Chamfered ashlar quoins to angles; plinth with chamfered ashlar band; impost band; moulded eaves band. Openings have round arches supported on corbelled imposts, the doorways quoined and with keystones, the 4-pane windows with pilaster jambs and corbelled sills; all openings have fanlights, some boarded up. Deep eaves to hipped, oversailing roof carried by long iron brackets with cusped tracery to spandrels. Two cross-ridge stacks, south-eastern one truncated, north-western one with plinth and corbelled cornice. South-west front has central, 4-panel double-door, upper panels glazed. Similar doorway to centre of north-east front, which has paired windows to end bays. 2-bay south-east gable has doorway on right. 3-bay north-west end has bricked up window on left and 6-panel doors to centre and right.
The design of the station is derivative from plans by Brunel. The building is situated on the Taunton to Chard line, on which work was begun in 1864 and completed by 1866. It has similarities with the railway stations at Chard and Ilminster (q.q.v) which also served this line.
Listing NGR: ST3050220398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270942
- 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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