Upper Station of Cliff Railway
UPPER STATION OF CLIFF RAILWAY, CASTLE HILL WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254381
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Station of Cliff Railway
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER STATION OF CLIFF RAILWAY, CASTLE HILL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254381
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Station of Cliff Railway
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER STATION OF CLIFF RAILWAY, CASTLE HILL WALK
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:
- UPPER STATION OF CLIFF RAILWAY, CASTLE HILL WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgnorth
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7172393038
Details
The following buildings shall be added:-
SO 79 SW BRIDGNORTH CASTLE HILL WALK
2/286 Upper station of
Cliff Railway
GV II
Funicular railway station. 1892. By G. Croydon Marks. Red brick and
stone dressings with mock half timbering. Plain-tile and Welsh slate
roofs with brick ridge and end stacks. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys
with canted gabled bay to left, part-glazed door to centre and, to
right, a diagonally set small 2-storey tower with tall pyramidal roof
and ornamental ironwork finial. Further to right a single-storey flat
roofed section with part-glazed double doors and windows either side
houses the ticket office and entrance to the railway cars. The
railway, the only inland funicular railway in England and the
steepest, links the "High" and "Low" towns and is 201 feet long with
a rise of 111 feet. In the first three months of its opening in July
1892, 50,000 passengers used the railway, showing the popularity of
Bridgnorth as an attraction in that period. Forms a group with the
Lower station (q,v.) to which the railway, carved out of the rock,
leads. (C.F.GWILT: A History of the Castle Hill Railway).
Listing NGR: SO7172393038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gwilt, C F, A History of the Castle Hill Railway, ()
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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