KINGSWEAR STATION
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308783
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWEAR STATION, THE SQUARE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWEAR STATION, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingswear
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88186 51052
Details
SX 8851 KINGSWEAR THE SQUARE
15/151 Kingswear Station
-
- II
Railway station. Circa 1864. Painted horizontally boarded timber frame, and
rendered plinth. Corrugated asbestos hipped roof with projecting eaves with
moulded cornice. Rendered chimney stacks on ridge. Rectangular station building
with entrance ticket office, waiting room and offices etc and platforms behind
with train shed over and long platform extending to north east with canopy.
Single storey regular but asymmetrical eight window entrance front with double
set back to right. Tall two-light casements with glazing bars with plain un-
moulded timber architraves and aprons. Two doors with similar surrounds,
rectangular fanlights and panelled and glazed doors. Flat roofed wooden canopy
over front with moulded cornice, zigzag fascia and boarded soffit probably con-
cealing iron brackets. Train shed over platforms and line adjoining north west
has boarded sides and timber trusses with iron rod bracing and clad in corrugated
asbestos with glazed ridge. Platform extends to north east has canopy on iron
lattice piers. The Dartmouth and Torbay line was opened in 1859 and the section
from Churston to Kingswear was began in 1862 and completed in 1864.
Listing NGR: SX8818651052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100590
- 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.
End of official listing
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