Former Cowton Railway Station
Former Cowton Railway Station, East Cowton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252773
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cowton Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- Former Cowton Railway Station, East Cowton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252773
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cowton Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Cowton Railway Station, East Cowton
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 Cowton Railway Station, East Cowton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Cowton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31866 03774
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 July 2024 to reformat the text to current standards.
NZ 30 SW
3/50
EAST COWTON
Former Cowton Railway Station
II
Railway station and stationmaster's house. 1841, by Benjamin Green for the Great North of England Railway. Plum-coloured stock brick with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roof. H-shaped plan, Jacobethan style.
West (entrance) elevation is symmetrical with the one-storey and attic house projecting forward on the left with a further room projecting forward again and gabled at right angles. Single-light casement windows to either face, drip moulds over. Centre section has four centred porch with corbelled parapet, original plank door. This is flanked by two light stone mullioned windows with drip moulds, corbel table above. Righthand gable with two light windows below, single above, as before. Gables with moulded coping, double kneelers, finials, some of these details damaged. Two stacks at junction of roofs, one rebuilt, one partly dismantled. South elevation with two, two-light windows with continuous drip. East (track) elevation is asymmetrical. Gables with stepped three-light, mullioned windows with drips, single light above. These flank recessed centre with three-bay verandah carried on quatrefoil section, cast-iron columns. Wooden arcade with decorated spandrels and pendants, slate roof, corbel table above. Above this is a small gable with a plain roundel presumably intended for a clock.
Interior almost intact to both public rooms and house. Booking office fittings, most of the joinery and five original fireplaces, four with Gothic surrounds. This is the oldest survivor of Benjamin Green's stations and the only survivor of the Great Northern Railway wayside stations.
Listing NGR: NZ3186603774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435878
- 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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