MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1238269
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1971
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1238269
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Feb-1980
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION

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:: MAIN BUILDING ON EAST SIDE OF TRACK ST AUDLEY END RAILWAY STATION

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wendens Ambo
National Grid Reference:: TL 51610 36304

Details

WENDENS AMBO AUDLEY END 1. 5222 Main building on east side of track at Audley End Railway Station (formerly listed as Audley End Railway Station) TL 5136 35/798 1.9.71

II

2. Built circa 1845 by Francis Thompson, railway architect of the early C19 whose work (mainly in the north Midlands) includes notably, Chester Station. In 1845 "The Builder" attributed both Great Chesterford and Audley End stations to Francis Thompson. A rectangular yellow gault brick building with a parapet and ornamental stucco band. Two storeys. Three window range on the west and east fronts and one window range on the north and south ends, double-hung sashes with semi-circular heads, in stucco architraves. The east front has a covered carriage approach with corresponding stucco arches and coursed pillars. The west front has a C20 platform canopy, without a fascia, on original cast iron ornamental brackets. (RCHM 4).

Listing NGR: TL5161036304

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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.