Whitley Bay Station Main Building With Train Shed
WHITLEY BAY STATION MAIN BUILDING WITH TRAIN SHED, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355007
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whitley Bay Station Main Building With Train Shed
- Statutory Address:
- WHITLEY BAY STATION MAIN BUILDING WITH TRAIN SHED, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355007
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whitley Bay Station Main Building With Train Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITLEY BAY STATION MAIN BUILDING WITH TRAIN SHED, 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:
- WHITLEY BAY STATION MAIN BUILDING WITH TRAIN SHED, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35708 71868
Details
WHITLEY BAY STATION ROAD NZ 37 SE 5/184 Whitley Bay Station: main building with train shed. II Railway station passenger building and train shed. Dated 1910 on tower. For North Eastern Railway Co; engineer William Bell. Brick with ashlar quoins and dressings and ashlar-coped plinth; Welsh slate roof with glass lights and stone gable copings; lead tower roof. Free Baroque style. One storey, 25 bays in all. Ventral symmetrical 9-bay block has 3-stage tower over porch; and end porches, all open-arched and gabled, with alternate-block jambs and brick-and-stone keyed arches; quoins, eaves and gable bands, and ball finials to end porches. Tower has 3-light ground floor window, round-headed openings in 2 upper stages; clock in third stage with keyed surround. Stone garlands under dentilled eaves cornice; parapet with pilasters and shaped coping. Ogee-hipped roof with tall spike finial. Windows between porches have stone mullions and round heads. 9-bay left wing has gables over end bay and over central door, and keyed elliptical heads to wood mullioned-and-transomed windows; 7-bay right wing has elliptical head to door, in end bay, and keyed round-headed windows with door inserted in fourth bay. Interior shows arcaded ticket office with fat, banded Ionic pilasters. Train shed: rear panelled brick wall and cast iron Ionic columns on octagonal plinths; girders with pierced spandrels containing shields support glazed roof.
Listing NGR: NZ3570871868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303433
- 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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