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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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174849
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174849
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-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
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:
- BOOKING HALL, PUBLIC ROOMS, OFFICES AND FOOTBRIDGE AT LETCHWORTH STATION, STATION PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161920
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,
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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