Crediton Railway Station Main Range
CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197092
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Crediton Railway Station Main Range
- Statutory Address:
- CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197092
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Crediton Railway Station Main Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, 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:
- CREDITON RAILWAY STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 84017 99485
Details
CREDITON
SX89NW STATION ROAD 672-1/2/153 Crediton Railway Station Main Range 24/08/89
GV II
Main range to Crediton railway station, opened 1851. Possibly designed by I.K.Brunel (Pevsner) for the Exeter and Crediton Railway. Flemish bond red brick with painted Bathstone dressings; slate roof with gable ends; shouldered stack with tall brick shaft; cast iron gutters. Exterior: Single story. Asymmetrical 1:2:2 bay north (entrance) front, the outer bays with lower roofs. Centre broken forward with a canopy on timber cantilevered brackets over a canted bay with a 5-light window with a high transom and chamfered mullions. Chamfered 4-centred arched doorway to the right with a C20 door. The other windows (1 to left, 2 to right) have deep chamfered frames and rusticated surrounds. South side of 2:2:1 bays and a canopy on timber cantilevered brackets with 4 cast iron brackets decorated with roundels. Canopy extends the width of the platform. The centre bays break forward with a 4-light mullion and transom window matching that on the north and a similar (blocked) 4-centred arch doorway. Window to right (east) also 4-centred with chamfered surround; two windows to left of door match those on north side. Interior: Not fully inspected but a C19 cornice survives in the ticket office; probably original plain corner chimneypiece to south-east room. Pevsner notes a similarity to GWR wayside stations. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1839, led to it being known as the 'Vicar of Bray Railway'. Eventually the Exeter and Crediton Railway (Act obtained 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who reconverted to broad guage and opened May 12 1851 until the LSWR took over the lease in 1862 (St John Thomas). Surprisingly intact and part of a good group of associated railway buildings. (A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: St John Thomas, David,: The West Country: PP.92-96; The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.300).
Listing NGR: SX8401799485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 300
Thomas, D, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The West Country, (), 92-6
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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