PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING

PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING, PORTLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209609
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING
Statutory Address:: PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING, PORTLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209609
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1992
List Entry Name:: PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING
Statutory Address 1:: PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING, PORTLAND 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:: PORTSLADE RAILWAY STATION AND WALLS ABUTTING, PORTLAND ROAD

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

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26481 05549

Details

HOVE

TQ20NE PORTLAND ROAD, Portslade 579-1/3/173 (North side) Portslade Railway Station and walls abutting

II

Railway station, now including offices, with north platform building disused. 1857. Tuscan villa-style. Render over brick, shallow pitch asbestos slate roofs, hipped to wings, overhanging eaves with modillion cornice, tall rendered stacks with moulded caps. Plan: 2 blocks on north and south sides of railway line; the larger (south) block containing the booking hall with adjoining pavilion to east, thought to have been the station master's house, now offices; single storey, 5-bay north range, walls abutting east and west of both ranges. Main range U-plan with L-plan pavilion: 2-storeys with single-storey pavilion, 2:5:2 bays, all sash windows without glazing bars, moulded entablature to window openings with keystones, alternate round-arched and cambered heads, flat string course, ground floor with continuous entablature, paired windows to outer bays of central range, inserted doorway left, similar to booking hall via central bay, fanlight with double, half-glazed doors. Similar fenestration to pavilion, linked by lower 2-bay corridor, square-headed entrance adjoining, one window in re-entrant angle. Platforms: cast-iron columns with simple decorative spandrels supporting canopies to 'up' and 'down' lines. There was formerly a single-storey canopy on the facade linking the 2 wings of the booking office. Walls: rendered. 3-bay to west with segmental-headed blind arcades, flat coping, terminating in square piers, shallow buttresses on exterior elevation. Portslade Station first opened in 1840 on a slightly different site and closed 7 years later. The present building of 1857 is little altered.

Listing NGR: TQ2648105549

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Legacy System number:: 365604
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.