Rushton Spencer Station
Rushton Spencer Station
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191521
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rushton Spencer Station
- Statutory Address:
- Rushton Spencer Station
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191521
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rushton Spencer Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rushton Spencer Station
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:
- Rushton Spencer Station
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93587 62465
Details
SJ 96 SW
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RUSHTON C.P.
RUSHTON SPENCER
Rushton Spencer Station
GV
II
Railway station, now dwelling. 1844. Coursed and dressed sandstone rubble; banded and shaped tile roof; verge parapets with finials on corbelled kneelers; circular and diamond shafted corniced stone stacks. Irregular and complex plan with extended frontage to raised platform; Tudor style.
Entrance front of two-storey centre block and set-back flanking single-storey wings; centre block in three parts; projecting gabled two-storey porch to right of centre with two-light ovolo mullioned window in corbelled, projecting block surround to first floor over Tudor-arched two doorway with double, boarded doors; C20 datestone over, depicting Staffordshire knot and dated 1844; slightly set-back bay to right of porch with small gable and stack to apex; one small window to right of ground floor; slightly set-back, single-storey, parapetted and flat-roofed bay to left of porch with three-light ovolo mullioned casement window to centre, set against two-storey part, well set-back to rear with one window (similar to that below) of two lights also to centre; flanking single-storey wing to right has small segmental-arched sash window to right of centre and triangular bay window to right-hand end, corresponding left wing of three small windows and lower roofline to left-hand end.
Built for Leek and Macclesfield Railway, eventually taken over by the North Staffordshire Railway.
Listing NGR: SJ9358762465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275373
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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