Mortimer Station
MORTIMER STATION, THE FOREHEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117145
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Mortimer Station
- Statutory Address:
- MORTIMER STATION, THE FOREHEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117145
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Mortimer Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTIMER STATION, THE FOREHEAD
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:
- MORTIMER STATION, THE FOREHEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratfield Mortimer
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67218 64112
Details
STRATFIELD MORTIMER THE FOREHEAD SU 66 SE (south side) Mortimer Station 6/14 4.9.75 G.V. II* Railway Station. 1848 by I K Brunel for the GWR. Red brick with stock brick strings and surrounds to openings; hipped slate roof with deeply projecting eaves on cut brackets. Single storey. Entrance front: A pair of central 4-panelled doors with fanlight with radiating glazing bars under round arched head, and with projecting doorcase; flanked either side by a group of 3 single light windows with similar heads; continuous projecting string course linking doors and windows at impost level and forming impost blocks. The platform front is similar. The return on the north is 3 bays with two 4-panelled doors with fanlights as before, a central round headed window with glazing bars and stone cill. The Station is on the Reading - Basingstoke line which was laid under Brunel's personal direction. Originally the Berks and Hants Extension Railway it was taken over by the GWR before completion. One of the most unaltered of Brunel's wayside stations.
Listing NGR: SU6721864112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40007
- 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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