Station House and Platform Cottage
Station House and Platform Cottage, Castle Howard Station Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315793
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Station House and Platform Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Station House and Platform Cottage, Castle Howard Station Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315793
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Station House and Platform Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Station House and Platform Cottage, Castle Howard 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:
- Station House and Platform Cottage, Castle Howard Station Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 73681 66697
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 April 2026 to correct duplication in name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SE 76 NW
5/118
WELBURN
CASTLE HOWARD STATION ROAD (east side)
Station House and Platform Cottage
(shown on map as Old)
Formerly listed as Station House)
19.9.79
II
Station and station house; now house and cottage. 1845. By G T Andrews. Sandstone ashlar to front; dressed sandstone with chiselled quoins and window dressings to rear; slate roof. Central-staircase plan to house with station range to rear right and service range to rear left.
Entrance front: two storey, three bay front, with full-height centre portico; single-storey bay to left. Portico has keyed round-arched openings with impost band. Half-glazed panelled door beneath divided overlight. Twelve-pane sashes to ground floor and nine-pane sashes to first floor, all with plain raised surrounds. Ground floor sill band; raised first floor band. First floor window to portico is a radial-glazed sash flanked by recessed panels within keyed Venetian surround. Single storey bay has round-arched radial-glazed sash window in raised, keyed surround, and impost band. Overhanging eaves on shaped brackets. Banks of stacks rise through roof pitch to rear.
Line-side: two storey gable end, with single-storey, four-bay range to right. First floor balcony on ogee corbels to gable end with keyed Venetian screen and pierced balustrade. Twelve-pane sashes to ground and first floors.
Station range to right has keyed round-arched arcade with impost band. C20 glazed and panelled door to right of centre and three bordered sashes each beneath a fanlight with a broad transom. End right stack.
Interior: open-string geometric stair with stick balusters, clustered around a turned newel; moulded handrail, wreathed at bottom; decorated treadends. Window panelling and panelled shutters survive in ground-floor windows.
Illustrated London News, 31 August 1850: "Royal Visit to Castle Howard".
Listing NGR: SE7368166697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Illustrated London News in 31 August, (1850)
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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