Corfe Castle Railway Station
CORFE CASTLE RAILWAY STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140121
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Corfe Castle Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- CORFE CASTLE RAILWAY STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140121
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Corfe Castle Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORFE CASTLE RAILWAY STATION
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:
- CORFE CASTLE RAILWAY STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96196 82071
Details
CORFE CASTLE Corfe Castle Railway Station SY98SE 1071-0/7/10000 II Railway station. Built in 1885 for the London and South Western Railway Company. Coursed and dressed rock-faced Purbeck stone. Plain clay tile roof, hipped and gabled, with crested ridge tiles and moulded bargeboards. Axial and lateral stone stacks with moulded and weathered caps. PLAN: Station master's house with cross-wing at the south end, booking hall at the centre and waiting rooms at the north end. Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2-storey house on right with gabled cross-wing on its right with rectangular stone bay window and 3-light sashes, porch with wooden canopy in angle and paired sashes to left. One storey and attic booking hall at centre, 3:1:3 sashes on right with small side-lights, centre doorway with shouldered arch and glazed and panelled double doors; hipped dormer above to right. Single storey waiting room set back slightly on left with 3 small sashes and hipped roof with louvred ventilator. On east side wooden platform canopy with gabled ends and open roof, the tie-beams supported on four thin cast-iron columns with ornate pierced spandrels. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: Built by the London and South Western Railway Company in 1885 when a branch line from Wareham to Swanage was constructed.
Listing NGR: SY9619682071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352127
- 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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