Shackerstone Railway Station
SHACKERSTONE RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188225
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Shackerstone Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- SHACKERSTONE RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188225
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Shackerstone Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHACKERSTONE RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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:
- SHACKERSTONE RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shackerstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37884 06569
Details
SK 30 NE SHACKERSTONE STATION ROAD
Shackerstone 2/99 Shackerstone Railway Station
II
Railway Station. Circa 1873. Red brick with ashlar dressings, and hipped slate roofs with bracketed oversailing eaves and brick ridge stacks. Aligned north-south. The West front faces the station yard. Single-storey main block with lower single-storey wings set back slightly. The main block is in a rhythm of 3:3:3 bays with projecting centre. All windows are sashes with raised and moulded surrounds, raised keys, scrolled sides and bracketed sills. The central windows of the 2 outer portions are larger: Central 2-leaf panelled door with overlight and similar surround to the windows. The left-hand wing has a central doorway and a window to the right whereas the right-hand wing has 3 windows, the centre one larger. East front: 5-bay open centre portion with cast iron columns and openwork brackets. 3 windows to each side; the right-hand wing has a central door and 2 flanking windows; the left hand wing has a door to the left and a window to the right. Shackerstone railway station was designed and built by the Midland Railway Co. and served the line between Hinckley/Nuneaton and Ashby/Coalville. Passenger services began 1st September, 1873. P. Howard Anderson, The East Midlands,vol. 2 of Forgotten Railways, 2nd edition (1985) pp. 47 - 53.
Listing NGR: SK3788406569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Howard Anderson, P, Forgotten Railways in The East Midlands, Vol. 2, (1985), 47-53
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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