TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK)

TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK), STATION ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344769
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK)
Statutory Address:: TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK), STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344769
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK)
Statutory Address 1:: TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK), STATION ROAD

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.

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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:: TAUNTON STATION (SOUTH BLOCK), STATION ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST 22737 25421

Details

1. STATION ROAD 5365 (East Side) Taunton Station (South block) ST 2225 6/391 II GV 2. About 1845 when the railway was opened. 2 storey white brick building with lower wings to side. Cornice and parapet. Hipped slate roof. 3 windows, the end window bays project slightly. Sashes (triple light in centre) in painted moulded surrounds, glazing bars. Ground floor has windows and central doorway with cornices on brackets. Canopy over ground floor on curved iron brackets with scrolled detail: frilled edge to canopy 1 storey contemporary range to left with large round headed archway and key-stone in corner and canopy over.

Taunton Station (South block) forms a group with former Great Western Hotel and the Wheel Tapper Public House.

Listing NGR: ST2273725421

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Legacy System number:: 269918
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.