Railway Station and Footbridge

RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221627
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Railway Station and Footbridge
Statutory Address:
RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221627
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Railway Station and Footbridge
Statutory Address 1:
RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Albrighton and Donington
National Grid Reference:
SJ 81891 04529

Details

SJ 80 SW, ALBRIGHTON C.P., STATION ROAD,
6/35

Railway Station and Footbridge

G.V.

II

Railway Station and footbridge. C.1850 and c.1880. Station red brick
with stone dressings; slate roofs. Italianate. in the style of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham line. One and two storeys, five bays, irregular;
extra waiting room added to left; 2-storeyed gabled break with moulded
wooden bargeboards and finial, flanked by twin arched projections,
left hand a loggia, the right hand blocked; 2 and 3-light round arched
windows with sashes, first floor on sill band, rest with bracketed
sills. Prominent chimneys, principal one with four shafts and moulded
capping. Platform canopy replaced on the downline side c.1880; on
the upline side, built on a vaulted basement, four windows and four doors,
fretted iron brackets to canopy. Footbridge. Wooden and cast-iron,
corrugated iron roof, gable finials. 4 flights with central gangway,
iron lattice guard, pierced bargeboards, weatherboarded sides to lower
part; palmette capped columns to landings, G.W.R. emblem and date 1883
at each end of the central gangway.

The Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Railway opened in 1849, Albrighton being one of its original stations,
and was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1854.


Listing NGR: SJ8189104529

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
255141
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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