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In the entry for:-

SU59NW CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD
(North side)
2/30 Culham Station
20/05/75 ticket office
and waiting room
(Formerly listed
as main passenger
building at Culham
Station)

_ II

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The entry shall be amended to read:-

SU59NW CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD
(North side)
2/30 Culham Station
20/05/75 ticket office
and waiting room
(Formerly listed
as main passenger
building at Culham
Station)

- II*

Ticket office and waiting room. now disused. c.1844. Designed by I.K.
Brunel for the Great Western Railway. Ashlar stone plinth; red brick
with ashlar stone dressings; Welsh slate roof; to right of centre a
brick ridge stack with diagonally set flue, to rear a lateral stack
with diagonally set flue. 3-unit plan. Domestic Tudor style. Single-
storey, 3-bay range: central bay projects to front and rear, and has
higher coped roof. To right of centre and to left are C19 ribbed doors
with 4-centre arched surrounds. To centre a wood mullion and transom
window with stone surround. Wood cross-window with stone surround to
right. George VI wall letter box. Wood canopy on decorative cast-iron
brackets to all sides; with fretted edging, except to entrance front.
Platform front: C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds to
left of centre and to right. To right of centre a canted stone bay
window with wood mullion and transom windows. Stone slit window to
left. Interior not inspected. History: built as "Abingdon Road
Station", re-named "Culham Station" in 1856. Drawing held by British
Rail. Few of the Brunel-designed stations survive, and of the four
built to this design only Culham remains.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.29).

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CULHAM ABINGDON ROAD
SU59NW (North side)
2/30 Culham Station ticket office
20/05/75 and waiting room
(Formerly listed as main
passenger building at Culham
Station)

_ II

Ticket office and waiting room, now disused. c.1844. Probably designed by I.K.
Brunel. Ashlar stone plinth; red brick with ashlar stone dressings; Welsh slate
roof; to right of centre a brick ridge stack with diagonally set flue, to rear a
lateral stack with diagonally set flue. 3-unit plan. Domestic Tudor style.
Single-storey, 3-bay range: central bay projects to front and rear, and has
higher coped roof. To right of centre and to left are C19 ribbed doors with
4-centre arched surrounds. To centre a wood mullion and transom window with
stone surround. Wood cross-window with stone surround to right. Wood canopy on
decorative cast-iron brackets to all sides; with fretted edging, except to
entrance front. Platform front: C19 ribbed doors with 4-centre arched surrounds
to left of centre and to riqht. To right of centre a canted stone bay window
with wood mullion and transom windows. Stone slit window to left. Interior not
inspected. History: built as "Abingdon Road Station", re-named "Culham Station"
in 1856. Drawing held by British Rail. Reputed to be unique survival of this
station design.
(V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.29).

Listing NGR: SU5292095276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Culham railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2740729

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