Smallford Station
SMALLFORD STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245067
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Smallford Station
- Statutory Address:
- SMALLFORD STATION
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- Date:
- 1999-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00480/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245067
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Smallford Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMALLFORD STATION
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:
- SMALLFORD STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colney Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1980307208
Details
TL10NE
270/10/10029
COLNEY HEATH
Smallford Station
II
Railway station, now office building. 1866, and built for the Great Northern Railway. Timber-framed with weatherboarded exterior, with a Welsh slated roof covering. Single storeyed structure with 2 plain doors and 2 4 over 4 pane sash windows with vertical glazing bars : D : W :D : W : on the road elevation. Hipped roof with an external brick stack on the left-hand gable and ridge stack at the right-hand end. The platform elevation has 2 doors and 3 windows as above. Interior not inspected.
History: The station was opened as Springfield in February 1866 as a part of the GNR branch from Hatfield to St Albans. It was renamed Smallford on 1st October 1879 and closed on the 1st October 1951.
A little-altered example of a small wayside station of timber-framed construction built by the Great Northern Railway in 1866, and now a rare survival of the building type.
REF. Taylor R.D. and Anderson B, Hatfield and St Albans Branch of the G .N .R. Oakwood Press, 1988 pps. 18-21.
Listing NGR: TL1980307208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, , Anderson, , Hatfield and St Albans Branch of the Great Northern Railway, (1988), 18-21
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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