Former Booking Hall and Waiting Room at Charfield Station
FORMER BOOKING HALL AND WAITING ROOM AT CHARFIELD STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114969
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Booking Hall and Waiting Room at Charfield Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BOOKING HALL AND WAITING ROOM AT CHARFIELD STATION, STATION ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114969
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Booking Hall and Waiting Room at Charfield Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BOOKING HALL AND WAITING ROOM AT CHARFIELD 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:
- FORMER BOOKING HALL AND WAITING ROOM AT CHARFIELD STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charfield
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 72428 92214
Details
ST 79 SW CHARFIELD STATION ROAD (west side)
2/17 Former Booking Hall and Waiting Room at Charfield Station G.V. II
Booking hall and waiting room, now disused. Circa 1843-44 for the Bristol and Gloucester Railway : engineer, I.K. Brunel. Brick with freestone dressings and quoins; slate roof with overhanging bracketted eaves and coped raised verges on kneelers to the right; brick and ashlar square and diagonal stacks. In a plain Tudor Gothic style. Single storey. Central door in chamfered ashlar surround with 4-centred head. To the right is an advanced square bay (the waiting room) and a single bay recessed section with a square headed door. 'To the left is a smaller advanced square bay (the booking hall) and the recessed parcels' office and office section. The windows are boarded - probably 2- and 3-light casements with chamfered surrounds. The buildings at Charfield Station forms the only surviving intact group of buildings on the line - an important line which completed the through route from Exeter to Newcastle in 1844. (Buchanan L.A. and Buchanan R.A. Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology : Central South England, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST7242892214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buchanan, , Buchanan, , Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology Central Southern England, (1980)
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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