Northgate Railway Station
NORTHGATE RAILWAY STATION, OUT NORTHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270974
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Northgate Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHGATE RAILWAY STATION, OUT NORTHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270974
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Northgate Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHGATE RAILWAY STATION, OUT NORTHGATE
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:
- NORTHGATE RAILWAY STATION, OUT NORTHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85267 65167
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8565SW OUT NORTHGATE 639-1/1/510 (West side) 12/07/72 Northgate Railway Station
GV II
Railway station. c1847. By Sancton Wood. Red brick and stone. Tudor style. EXTERIOR/PLAN: the north and south platforms have balancing compositions of low wings at the east end, twin ornamental towers and higher station rooms and offices at the west end. On the east wings, end pavilions break forward slightly with shaped open stone pediments and circular lunettes. The south side has 3 semicircular arches with concentric recessed brick arches above a stone cornice which breaks forward above the brick piers. The ground storey has C20 shops and booking hall entrance with a C19 cut and shaped wood canopy above. The north wing has 3 elliptical brick arches separated by brick piers which rise above a brick parapet and stone cornice. Twin lead domed square towers rise above the inner pavilions, with semicircular brick arches and corner pilasters surmounted by stone cornices, lunettes and strapwork. At the west end 2-storeyed blocks with gables and parapets break forward about 10 feet. 1:3:1:3 window range, stone trimmed 2 and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows on the 1st storey. Gabled wings, of 1 window range, break forward slightly at each end with diapered brickwork. The ground storey has various windows on the south side with open semicircular arcades to the west. The north side has semicircular arches with lunettes and a cornice above doors and windows, and to the west there is a wall with blind arcading. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 147).
Listing NGR: TL8526765167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 147
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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