Former Joint Railway Station
FORMER JOINT RAILWAY STATION, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197457
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Joint Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER JOINT RAILWAY STATION, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197457
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Joint Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER JOINT RAILWAY STATION, GREAT WESTERN 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:
- FORMER JOINT RAILWAY STATION, GREAT WESTERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chard Town
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32950 09220
Details
CHARD
ST30NW GREAT WESTERN ROAD 756-1/1/84 (South side) 29/07/76 Former Joint Railway Station
II
Station building. 1866, for Bristol & Exeter and London & South Western Railways. Flemish bond brick with Bath stone dressings; hipped slate roof, brick ridge stacks. Single storey; 5 bays. Central one, under a pediment with circular ornament, is stepped forward to eaves and is flanked by deeply-recessed bays, each with a door and a window. Outside bays are half-stepped forward with one window between quoins and a door to far left and right. All doors and windows are set in round arches with platband at impost level; windows have bracketed sills and C20 six-pane fixed lights; doors have 4 panels. Shallow-pitched roof with gable to pediment has wide tongued-and-grooved eaves on 3 sides supported by cast-iron brackets resting on keystones of openings in recessed bays. Overhang forms canopy or shelter. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the station was built to serve the Chard and Taunton Line which was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1891, a year before the broad gauge track was converted. The station was unique in combining one of Brunel's extended hipped-roofed Italianate brick buildings with one of his wooden overall roofs to the shed (demolished).
Listing NGR: ST3295009220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374112
- 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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