Hamstreet and Orlestone Railway Station
HAMSTREET AND ORLESTONE RAILWAY STATION, ST MARYS CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391381
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Hamstreet and Orlestone Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- HAMSTREET AND ORLESTONE RAILWAY STATION, ST MARYS CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391381
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Hamstreet and Orlestone Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMSTREET AND ORLESTONE RAILWAY STATION, ST MARYS CLOSE
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:
- HAMSTREET AND ORLESTONE RAILWAY STATION, ST MARYS CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Orlestone
- National Grid Reference:
- TR0009033762
Details
1419/0/10003
09-MAY-05
ORLESTONE
ST MARY'S CLOSE
Hamstreet
Hamstreet and Orlestone Railway Station
II
Country railway station. Opened in 1851, designed by William Trees for the Ashford to Tonbridge line. Italianate style. Built of red brick (the upper part of the south end painted) with full-height stock brick pilasters and stringcourse, stuccoed dressings and slate roof with overhanging eaves and two tall brick chimneystacks, the southern painted. Two storeys with three windows to the upper floor and four to the lower.
PLAN FORM: Asymmetrical design, roughly T-shaped with projecting north gable to both sides. Originally the ground floor consisted of a booking office with a counter, a clerk's room, ladies and gentlemen's toilets and a porters' room with a stationmaster's flat above.
EXTERIOR: The west or entrance front has a first floor round-headed casement window below the projecting gable with two small casement windows to the ground floor. The remaining part has two casement windows divided by columns to the upper floor and larger mullioned and transomed casements to the ground floor and double doors. The platform side has a paired round-headed arch to the first floor of the gable and two window openings below, one blocked window and one casement window. The remaining part has casement windows to the first floor and mullioned and transomed casements to the ground floor. All the building, except the northern bay has a verandah with slate roof supported on large curved wooden brackets. The north elevation has two casement windows divided by columns to the upper floor and a blocked round-headed opening to the ground floor.
INTERIOR: The original plan form was modified by partitioning part of the old booking office to make a smaller one with the remainder adapted to become a waiting room, putting the clerk's office upstairs and turning the porter's room into a store.
HISTORY: The design of this station is a mirror image of Winchelsea Railway station (also on the Ashford to Hastings line) for which the original plans survive.
An externally unaltered 1851 Italianate style country railway station retaining its verandah and (unusually for the south of England) a staggered foot crossing for passengers.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493038
- 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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