Waiting Rooms Immediately South West of Crediton Station Main Range
WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197093
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Waiting Rooms Immediately South West of Crediton Station Main Range
- Statutory Address:
- WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON STATION MAIN RANGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197093
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Waiting Rooms Immediately South West of Crediton Station Main Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON 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:
- WAITING ROOMS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF CREDITON 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 83997 99474
Details
CREDITON
SX8399 STATION ROAD 672-1/4/157 Waiting Rooms immediately south west 24/08/89 of Crediton Station Main Range
GV II
Railway station waiting rooms. Mid C19, either 1851 for the Exeter and Crediton Railway or, more likely, 1862 for the LSWR. Timber-framed, clad with weatherboarding, on a brick plinth; low-pitched hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge; cast iron gutters and downpipes. Plan: Small rectangular 4-bay building, consisting of 2 separate waiting rooms;canopy over platform. Exterior: Single storey. Asymmetrical 4-bay front, the 3 right hand bays symmetrical. Full-height opening to left hand (east) bay. The 3 right hand bays have a central half-glazed door flanked by narrow 8-pane sashes. Canopy across the front supported on the tie beams of the main roof augmented with 5 cast iron brackets decorated with roundels, matching the main range on the opposite platform. The rear elevation and returns are blind. Interior: The inside walls are boarded, the floor paved with yellow brick. Original simple wooden benches are fixed to the walls. Original roof construction complete and exposed: substantial king post and strut trusses with short curved braces below the tie beams, which project at the front to carry the canopy. Historical Note: The complicated early history of the line, which began in 1838, led to its being known as 'The Vicar of Bray Railway', but eventually the Crediton and Exeter Railway (Act of 1845) was leased to the Bristol and Exeter Railway who converted to broad guage and opened on 12 May 1851, until the LSWR took over in 1862 (St John Thomas, pp.92-96). Delightfully simple and unspoiled station building, one of an interesting C19 group of various dates at Crediton station. (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: SX8399799474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387108
- 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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