MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION

MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION, ROCKINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074404
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION, ROCKINGHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074404
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION, ROCKINGHAM ROAD

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

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MARKET HARBOROUGH RAILWAY STATION, ROCKINGHAM ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 74154 87387

Details

ROCKINGHAN ROAD 1. 5303 (North Side) Market Harborough Railway Station (formerly listed under St Mary's Road) SP 78 NW 7/181 25.3.75. II GV

2. Formerly joint LNWR and LMR lines. Station established here before 1860. Present main, or southern station building erected circa 1885. Symmetrical facade. Red brick with stone dressings. Slightly concave hipped roof, outer hipped gables slightly advanced with finials. Eaves cornice and very tall symmetrically placed chimneys, the centre rear stacks linked by an arch. Stone band at 1st floor and stone capping to brick plinth. 2 storeys and 1 centre dormer with segmental pediment and moulded eared architrave with scrolled base. 6 windows, the outer bays flanked by stuccoed pilasters. All windows barred sashes in moulded stone architraves, the outer 2 ground floor windows also with segmental pediments. Centre 4 windows paired, with framed panel between at 1st floor. Western ground floor centre pair now cut through to form additional entrance. Centre round arched doorway with fanlight. Canopy above centre ground floor. Eastern side external staircase with coped curved parapet. Rear or northern elevation has stuccoed segmental pediment across facade.

Listing NGR: SP7415487387

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Legacy System number:: 189740
Legacy System:: LBS

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