Stowmarket Railway Station
STOWMARKET RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292513
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stowmarket Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- STOWMARKET RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292513
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stowmarket Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOWMARKET RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
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:
- STOWMARKET RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05167 58857
Details
STOWMARKET
TM0558 STATION ROAD 614-1/4/112 Stowmarket Railway Station 19/04/72
GV II
Railway station. 1846 by Frederick Barnes. Restored 1987. Red brick with gault brick dressings under roofs clad in machine tiles. 1-3 storeys on high basements. Composition, in Jacobean style, is symmetrical, comprising a central one storey and attic block linked by single-storey ranges to taller 2-3 storey side blocks. Central block with Dutch gables to west, north and south, the west one facing the entrance and with an attic window. Windows generally are ovolo-moulded cross casements, cornices are saw-toothed. 2 square one-storey pavilions flank main entrance right and left. Recessed linking blocks had retaining walls with taller central doorways enclosing forecourt, but this remains now only to south side. Main outer blocks with cross casements, Dutch gables to all faces (north return of north block with twin shaped gables), and frontal (west) polygonal towers with doors at the bases and pierced parapets at the top. Gabled roofs carry romantically-placed 2- and 3-flued stacks. Platform canopies supported on square section welded steel piers of late C20. The piers rise to timber braces within which are cast-iron scrolled brackets. Inner face of main west range with 4 arches right and left of central entrance to booking hall.
Listing NGR: TM0516758857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384640
- 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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