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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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 38431
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.