FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION

FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316505
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316505
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD

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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 BAKEWELL RAILWAY STATION, STATION ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Bakewell
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 22258 68985

Details

BAKEWELL

SK2268 STATION ROAD 831-1/5/175 (West side) 28/01/94 Former Bakewell Railway Station

GV II

Railway station now offices. 1861-62. By Edward Walker for the Midland Railway. Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings; patterned Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey, 4:3:4-bay symmetrical entrance front. Advanced gabled open porch supported on ornamental cast-iron columns; decorative wooden frieze. Central double doors and large overlight flanked by large margin-glazed sashes all beneath segmental arches. Outer bays have sill band to smaller margin-glazed sashes beneath lintel band which becomes the imposts of the central 3 bays. Bold eaves projection on shaped wooden brackets. Tall ashlar end stacks and 2 ridge stacks with stepped bases and caps. Former platform side: shallow canted parapet above blind arcade of stepped segmental arches originally enclosed beneath the multiple ridges of the platform canopy; carved foliage ornament to corbelled imposts. Beneath the 2 central arches are stone columns which support smaller arches above door and window openings. INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork to ceilings. A fireplace in the former booking hall; decorative arch-braced ceiling. Some interior partitioning. HISTORY: the line opened 1st August 1862 following the Midland Railway (Rowsley and Buxton) Act of 25th May 1860; closed 1967. Notable example of Midland Railway architecture in an area of Derbyshire where railway design was influenced by the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire.

Listing NGR: SK2225868985

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Legacy System number:: 468213
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.