RAILWAY STATION BUILDING

RAILWAY STATION BUILDING, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195054
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY STATION BUILDING
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY STATION BUILDING, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195054
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY STATION BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY STATION BUILDING, STATION ROAD

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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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:: RAILWAY STATION BUILDING, STATION ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47194 61714

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NW STATION ROAD 1685-1/6/294 Railway Station Buildings 05/04/90 (Formerly Listed as: STATION ROAD Station buildings (west side))

II

Railway station. 1846, extended 1852 and 1900-6 and restored c1990. By William Tite. For the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company. Later additions by Austin and Paley. Tudor Revival style. Roughly squared sandstone rubble in the original block, and squared and snecked rubble elsewhere, both with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs in diminishing courses with coped gables and kneelers. Chimney stacks in picturesque profusion of position and shape, including 2 with octagonal shafts. The original building has 5 bays and 2 storeys, extended to the right by 10 bays in 1852, and to the left with a line of low outbuildings c1900. The original building has a recessed centre of 3 narrow bays between 2 wider gabled crosswings, which have on the ground floor a pair of 2-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and, on the first floor, a single 3-light mullioned and transomed window under a hoodmould. The centre has an entrance under 3 Tudor arches, now glazed. Above this are three 2-light windows, of which the central one is taller, with a transom, and rises into a gabled dormer. All these windows have double chamfers. The 10-bay extension to the right has fairly regular fenestration, with windows which are taller on the ground floor than on the first, and mostly of either 3 or 4 lights on both floors of each bay. The last 5 bays project slightly to balance the original building. The first of them has a narrow gable and contains a former entrance with a 2-centred arch and hoodmould under a scroll; above this is a 2-light window with a transom and segmental pointed heads under a hoodmould and relieving arch. The last bay is wider and rises as a 3-storey block which is detailed to look like a pele tower, (the station was originally called Lancaster Castle). It has to the left a tall square turret with a stone pyramidal roof, and then 2 small windows with shouldered lintels on the ground floor, a deeply-projecting square oriel on the first floor with a 5-light mullioned and transomed window, and a 2-light mullioned window on the second floor under stepped battlements. Under the central merlon a shield bears the arms of the former Borough of Lancaster above a scroll painted with the motto 'Luck to Loyne'. The platform facade has a projecting canopy supported on iron columns. An iron footbridge with timber window frames and a felt roof links the west building with the island platform and with the higher ground-floor level of the present (eastern) main entrance, which dates from 1900. The island platform has 2 single-storey blocks, one to each side of the footbridge, of rock-faced sandstone with mullioned and transomed windows and pitched slate roofs. They are linked by a platform canopy on the west side. The eastern building has a single-storey entrance facade on its east side. It is almost symmetrical and has a parapet with saddlebacked coping. Near the centre are 2 Tudor-arched doorways. To their right is a 3-light window with 2 transoms, and 2 cross windows. To their left are 2 window opening, and a Tudor-arched doorway at the far left. The front wall has 2 rainwater hoppers dated '1900'. A shallow entrance canopy is supported on iron brackets and has a glass roof with timber valance. HISTORY: when the railway line from Preston was extended through Lancaster over Shap Fell to Carlisle in 1846, this station was built to replace the original station on Penny Street, now the Nurses' Home on Ashton Road (qv).

Listing NGR: SD4719461714

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Legacy System number:: 383330
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.