BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION

BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION, STATION PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174849
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION
Statutory Address:: BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION, STATION PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174849
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION
Statutory Address 1:: BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION, STATION PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION, STATION PLACE

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 21708 32750

Details

STATION PLACE 1. 5255 Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices and footbridge at Letchworth Station TL 2132 8/146 II 2. 1912. This former Great Northern Station replaced a temporary station built in 1904. Arts and Crafts manner. One and a half storeys. Symmetrical front with recessed entrance between splayed bays. Tiled roof with red brick stacks with moulded caps. Red brick walls with eaves cornice and half-timbered gable with brick nogging at south-west end. Flat-topped, 6-light dormer over entrance. Gauged segmental brick arches to recessed sash windows. Segmental-arched entrance to booking hall below wooden canopy. Adjacent entrance porch to office with architraved doorway and battlemented parapet. Bay windows flanking entrance with panelled parapet surmounted by balls. Lifts on footbridge in the form of towers with pyramidical roofs. Two storey booking hall decorated in Art Nouveau manner with exposed timber work.

Listing NGR: TL2170832750

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.