Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room

Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room, Datchet Road, Windsor

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117737
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1975
List Entry Name:
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room
Statutory Address:
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room, Datchet Road, Windsor
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117737
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1975
List Entry Name:
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room
Statutory Address 1:
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room, Datchet Road, Windsor

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal waiting room, Datchet Road, Windsor

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

District:
Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 96878 77240

Details

SU 9677 SE
1/15A

DATCHET ROAD
Windsor Riverside Station and Royal Waiting Room

II

1851, architect Sir William Tite. Red brick Tudor/Gothic with blue brick diapering including date and Royal initials. Bath stone. Slate roof. Central gable with tall finial. Below this is a large four-light window. To the right of this is a porch of three pointed arches and to the left two arches with depressed heads (one now blocked and a carriage entrance.) The return wall on south east side forms a long curve, parallel with the platform, containing a series of arches with depressed heads. This wall links the station proper with the former Royal Waiting Room built for Queen Victoria, now disused. This a small building of main room and ante rooms crowned by a turret with spirelet. Tudor arched windows with canted bay to main room having pointed centre - stone dressings.

Interior of main room has a ribbed ceiling with pendant finial.

Listing NGR: SU9687877240

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Legacy System number:
40432
Legacy System:
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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 05/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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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