Welwyn North Railway Station and Footbridge
WELWYN NORTH RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, HARMER GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385391
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Welwyn North Railway Station and Footbridge
- Statutory Address:
- WELWYN NORTH RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, HARMER GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385391
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Welwyn North Railway Station and Footbridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELWYN NORTH RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, HARMER GREEN LANE
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:
- WELWYN NORTH RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE, HARMER GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Welwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2469715423
Details
TL 21 NW
77/2/10049
04-OCT-00
WELWYN
HARMER GREEN LANE
(West side)
Welwyn North Railway Station and Footbridge
II
Railway Station and Footbridge. 1850 for the Great Northern Railway, late C19 footbridge. Red brick with minimal stone dressings, Welsh slate roof, cast and wrought iron platform canopies and footbridge. The main building is on the upside. Italianate villa style, but very plain.
Yard elevation of two storeys, the wing to the left stands forward a trifle, blind on the ground floor, first floor band and cill band, paired narrow windows above. To the right the ground floor has a through arch with two arched windows, 3 pane sashes to right, band as before. Paired windows above with central blind panel. Hipped roofs with eaves overhang on brackets, chimney at either end. Waiting room to right with three arched doorways, lavatories to left.
Platform elevation has a small canopy on four cast iron columns with decorative brackets, slightly fretted valance. The features to this elevation are the same as before. All the windows
of the old station house are boarded up.
Interior not inspected.
Wrought iron lattice girder footbridge of the late C19 with cast iron columns and stair railings. This has been raised to accommodate the electric catenaries and shows signs of alteration but has good group value with the station building as does the portal of Welwyn tunnel to the north.
The downside buildings have been replaced.
History: This station was opened as Welwyn on the Great Northern Railway and was changed to Welwyn North by the London and North Eastern Railway when Welwyn Garden City station was opened in 1926. The line was engineered by William and Joseph Cubitt and built by Thomas Brassey.
The main building has been remarkably little altered.
References: R.V.J.Butt, The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1995. O.S.Nock, The Great Northern Railway, Ian Allan, 1974.
Listing NGR: TL2469715423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nock, O S, The Great Northern Railway, (1974)
Butt, R V J, The Directory of Railway Stations, (1995)
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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