Frome Station (main building)
Frome Station (main building), Portway
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345526
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Frome Station (main building)
- Statutory Address:
- Frome Station (main building), Portway
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345526
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Frome Station (main building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Frome Station (main building), Portway
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:
- Frome Station (main building), Portway
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frome
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78452 47602
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/08/2018
ST 7847
13/210
PORTWAY
Frome Station (main building)
18.04.73
II
Circa 1850. Designed by J.R Hannaford. All wood construction. Train shed covering both tracks. Aisled, with wooden posts and ceiling. Corrugated iron roof with full length glazed vent. Offices on upside. Single storey with seven wooden casements, two and three light. Original bracketted canopy over entrance. Hipped corrugated iron roof with red brick stacks.
Largely unaltered example of a small station of the period and probably the last through train shed of its type in use on the Western Region. The line was constructed by the Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway and opened 9 September 1850 having been previously taken over by the Great Western Railway.
Listing NGR: ST7845247602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266286
- 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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