FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION

FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, STATION APPROACH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298247
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, STATION APPROACH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298247
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, STATION APPROACH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, STATION APPROACH

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ilminster
National Grid Reference:: ST 34849 14918

Details

ILMINSTER

ST3414 STATION APPROACH 1939-1/6/121 (West side) 29/07/76 Former Great Western Railway Station

II

Railway station for the Great Western Railway. c1868. Flemish-bond brick with limestone dressings to windows, plinth-top, platband at impost-level and quoins to all corners, including those of the chimney-stacks. Hipped slate roof with stone ridges, which has wide, boarded eaves supported by cast-iron brackets. Truncated H-shape plan. Single-storey, symmetrical 4-window range. All windows are square to the base, with 4-panes below semicircular-arched tops with 2 panes; plain surrounds with small consoles supporting the sills; the jambs step out at the top to meet the imposts. The frames are C20. Bays to either side are stepped-forward and have one window each. The C20 central double doors with semicircular overlight are flanked by similar windows. The stacks each end of the ridge have been extended with C20 bricks. INTERIOR not inspected. The station was on the Bristol and Exeter line, opened in 1868.

Listing NGR: ST3484914918

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Legacy System number:: 383483
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.