Waiting room on down platform

Waiting room on down platform, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162068
Date first listed:
28-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Waiting room on down platform
Statutory Address:
Waiting room on down platform, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162068
Date first listed:
28-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Waiting room on down platform
Statutory Address 1:
Waiting room on down platform, Redruth Railway Station, Station Road, Redruth, TR15 2AB

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
Waiting room on down platform, 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 70057 42003

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 July 2022 to update the name and address, amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 64 SE
11/303

REDRUTH
STATION HILL (south side)
Waiting room on down platform of Redruth Railway Station

29.9.87

GV
II

Station waiting room. 1888, for Great Western Railway Company. Timber frame and cladding, with cast-iron brackets to the canopy. Shallow rectangular plan of seven bays, but with the monopitched roof cantilevered over the platform as a deep canopy (except in the seventh bay, which may be an addition). The roof is carried by pairs of stop-chamfered posts, with cast-iron brackets to the cantilever beams, and the first bay is open, forming a porch to the entrance gateway and to the footbridge (q.v.); the other bays have lapped weatherboard walls, with double doors in the fourth bay, single doors in the fifth and sixth, and four-pane sashed windows in the second, third, and sixth. The canopy has a deep fretted valance and moulded cornice. Beyond it at the right-hand end is a seventh bay in matching materials, with two small high-set windows in the front and a doorway in the end wall (probably an office store, or cloakroom). The rear has four-pane sashed windows in the fourth and fifth bays.

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.

Listing NGR: SW7005742003

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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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