The Old Station at Dent Railway Station
THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383851
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Station at Dent Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383851
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Station at Dent Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION
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:
- THE OLD STATION AT DENT RAILWAY STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 76417 87481
Details
DENT
SD78NE DENTDALE
162-1/12/50 (North side)
The Old Station at Dent railway
station
GV II
Railway station booking hall, waiting rooms (etc); now in
private ownership and conversion as dwelling in progress at
time of inspection (July 1994). Probably c1870, for Midland
Railway Company; slightly altered. Coursed rock-faced
sandstone with freestone dressings and steeply-pitched Welsh
slate roofs with pierced blue ridge tiles. Linear plan on
north-south axis facing the track to the east, the main range
a modified U-plan with a low wing attached at the south end.
Free Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: the main range has 2 short but large gabled wings
clasping a low single-storey projected centre roofed at a
shallower pitch: this has a central doorway flanked by large
windows with geometrical tracery; and the wings each have a
large segmental-pointed window with a transom and 2 mullions,
all the lights so formed having margin panes, a traceried
oculus above, and oversailing barge-boarded eaves. Two tall
corniced ashlar chimneys on the ridge; gable barge-boarding.
The wing at the south end is one low storey, with a doorway
flanked by a 1-light window to the left and a 2-light
mullioned window to the right. Rear: projected gabled centre
like the wings at the front (window damaged at time of
inspection); 2 tall narrow windows each side, all with
transoms and margin panes. Wing to south has small windows of
1 and 2 lights with very small rectilinear margin panes.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Passenger Waiting
Room (qv) on opposite side of track, and with Building (former
workers' barracks) approx. 150m to south-east (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7641787481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484283
- 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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