Shrub Hill Station: Waiting Room to East Platform
SHRUB HILL STATION: WAITING ROOM TO EAST PLATFORM, SHRUB HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390157
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Shrub Hill Station: Waiting Room to East Platform
- Statutory Address:
- SHRUB HILL STATION: WAITING ROOM TO EAST PLATFORM, SHRUB HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1390157
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Shrub Hill Station: Waiting Room to East Platform
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHRUB HILL STATION: WAITING ROOM TO EAST PLATFORM, SHRUB HILL
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:
- SHRUB HILL STATION: WAITING ROOM TO EAST PLATFORM, SHRUB HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85830 55128
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555SE SHRUB HILL
620-1/14/519 Shrub Hill Station: waiting
05/04/71 room to east platform
(Formerly Listed as:
SHRUB HILL
Shrub Hill Railway Station.
East Platform at Shrub Hill
Railway Station)
GV II*
Waiting room, now office and waiting room. c1880. Iron frame made
by the Vulcan Iron Works, Worcester, with panels of glazed
ceramic tiles by Maw and Company; concealed flat roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey, 3:1:3 bays, the centre is set back. Bays
articulated by paired columns with decorative capitals on plinths
which break forward from panelled dado; surmounting frieze and
modillion cornice. Bays have paired 1/1 round-arched sashes in
moulded surrounds, windows to recess have paired columns between.
Entrances in centre returns: part-glazed, double doors with
semi-circular-arched heads, glazing has Y-tracery, doors have
lower raised and fielded panels with bolection mouldings. The
tiles are richly coloured and in a variety of patterns: those o
dado have star pattern, those to frieze have Greek key.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Vulcan Iron Works, manufacturers of railway
equipment, operated from the south side of Shrub Hill Road from
1857; by 1903 the company was known as McKenzie and Holland. The
two platforms and four lines of rails at Shrub Hill Station wee
originally covered by a curved roof of wrought-iron lattice
girders and glazed on the ridge-and-furrow principle; this was
removed c1936.
(Worcester Daily Times: Worcester at Work: Worcester: 1903-: 8;
Country Life: 23.11.1961).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489127
- 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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