Railway footbridge, Redruth station
Railway Footbridge, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Railway footbridge, Redruth station
- Statutory Address:
- Railway Footbridge, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142569
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Railway footbridge, Redruth station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Railway Footbridge, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB
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:
- Railway Footbridge, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redruth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 70062 42020
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to update the name, address and text on the 20 July 2022
SE 64 SE
11/304
REDRUTH
STATION HILL (south side)
Railway Footbridge, Redruth Station
(Formerly listed as Footbridge linking up and down platforms of Redruth Railway Station)
29.9.87
GV
II
Footbridge. Dated 1888 in spandrels; for Great Western Railway Company. Cast and wrought iron, steel, and wood. U-plan, with quarter-turned flights of steps parallel to the line on the west side. The bridge is carried by a square set of cast-iron columns at each end, the capitals decorated in Egyptian style, the quarter- turn landing on top of these columns approached by open wooden steps on steel strings with cast-iron open-work balusters and wooden handrails; the triangular spandrels to the main deck were all formerly decorated with wrought-iron monograms ‘1888’ and ‘GWR’ but these survive completely only on the east side at the north end; the landings and the main deck are protected by wrought-iron lattice fences. The steps at the south end rise from the porch of the waiting room (q.v.), to which they are linked.
HISTORY: Redruth station opened on 25 August 1852 as part of the West Cornwall Railway. The main station building on the up platform was of timber construction, with a large goods shed adjoining it on the south-west. On the down platform was a simple open shelter. A footbridge was added by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1888, possibly at the same time as the downside shelter was replaced with a new wooden building and canopy and as part of improvements connected with the dualling of the line. In the 1930s the main station building was demolished and replaced with a standard GWR structure and canopy. Listed as an unaltered example of its type and date.
Listing NGR: SW7006242020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66866
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Cornwall Council, Redruth Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy (2010), pp 22.
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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