Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station
MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF THE FORMER POTTON RAILWAY STATION, 48, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114082
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF THE FORMER POTTON RAILWAY STATION, 48, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114082
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Main Passenger Building of the Former Potton Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF THE FORMER POTTON RAILWAY STATION, 48, 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:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF THE FORMER POTTON RAILWAY STATION, 48, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Potton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21903 49234
Details
POTTON STATION ROAD TL 24NW 5/57 No. 48 (main passenger building 5.2.81 of the former Potton Railway Station) - II House, formerly the main passenger building of Potton Railway Station. 1862. Built by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway which was soon taken over by the Great Eastern Railway. Yellow gault brick with ornamental dressings of red and blue bricks. Other dressings in ashlar. Slate roofs. 2 storeyed station house with single storeyed passenger wing to N. Sash windows. Variety of ornamental detailing, including brick bands, moulded dentil eaves cornices, and decorative bargeboards to gables on passenger building. Stone coped gables to station house. Tall brick chimney stacks with moulded bases and caps. 5 bay platform canopy of iron and glass on W side, the decorative spandrels incorporating the date and the letters BC. A good example of railway architecture of the period in relatively unaltered condition.
Listing NGR: TL2190349234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38431
- 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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