Station Master's House and Offices, With Stone Platform to Front
STATION MASTER'S HOUSE AND OFFICES, WITH STONE PLATFORM TO FRONT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336960
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Station Master's House and Offices, With Stone Platform to Front
- Statutory Address:
- STATION MASTER'S HOUSE AND OFFICES, WITH STONE PLATFORM TO FRONT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336960
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Station Master's House and Offices, With Stone Platform to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- STATION MASTER'S HOUSE AND OFFICES, WITH STONE PLATFORM TO FRONT
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 MASTER'S HOUSE AND OFFICES, WITH STONE PLATFORM TO FRONT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheral
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 46774 54662
Details
WETHERAL WETHERAL NY 4654
14/178 Station Master's House and offices, with stone platform to front
G.V. II
Private house, formerly ticket office - clerk's office - waiting rooms and station master's house. 1835-38, probably by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, with 1880's additions for North Eastern Railway. Calciferous sandstone ashlar walls and slate roof, with ashlar chimney stacks. Originally all single storeyed but house had additional storey added in 1880's, in keeping with the original. Tudor style. Platform elevation has projecting central bay for clerk's office with hipped roof: chamfered plinth course, pilaster strips at angles: central mullioned window of 2 lights and hood mould with chamfered surrounds, flanked by 2 lancets with square-heads and.chamfered surrounds. Wooden-plank walled extension, filling left corner angle, built in 1880's, has wire grille window for issuing tickets. Adjoining this to the left is part of the cast-iron glass platform canopy, erected in the 1860's. To right of clerk's office is the original waiting room, with 2 entrance doors, chamfered surrounds and hood moulds and similar window, now boarded over, roof removed and only the front and one side wall remaining. Behind is the stationmaster's house, rebuilt in 1880's, in similar stone of similar details to the other buildings with 2-pane sash windows. Original low-level platform retained outside of these buildings, but now only used as access to Corby Bridge. Station closed 1969 (re-opened 1982) but none of these buildings now used by British Rail. Listed partly for G.V. with the nearby Corby Bridge.
Listing NGR: NY4677454662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77759
- 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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