Description

SE 76 NW WELBURN CASTLE HOWARD STATION
ROAD
(east side)
5/118 Station House and
19.9.79 Platform Cottage
(shown on map as Old
(Formerly listed as
Station House)

II
Station and station house; now house and cottage. 1845. By G T Andrews.
Sandstone ashlar to front; dressed sandstone with chiselled quoins and
window dressings to rear; slate roof. Central-staircase plan to house with
station range to rear right and service range to rear left. Entrance front:
2-storey, 3-bay front, with full-height centre portico; single-storey bay to
left. Portico has keyed round-arched openings with impost band. Half-
glazed panelled door beneath divided overlight. 12-pane sashes to ground
floor and 9-pane sashes to first floor, all with plain raised surrounds.
Ground-floor sill band; raised first-floor band. First-floor window to
portico is a radial-glazed sash flanked by recessed panels within keyed
Venetian surround. Single-storey bay has round-arched radial-glazed sash
window in raised, keyed surround, and impost band. Overhanging eaves on
shaped brackets. Banks of stacks rise through roof pitch to rear. Line-
side: 2-storey gable end, with single-storey, 4-bay range to right. First-
floor balcony on ogee corbels to gable end with keyed Venetian screen and
pierced balustrade. 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors. Station
range to right has keyed round-arched arcade with impost band. C20 glazed
and panelled door to right of centre and 3 bordered sashes each beneath a
fanlight with a broad transom. End right stack. Interior: open-string
geometric stair with stick balusters, clustered around a turned newel;
moulded handrail, wreathed at bottom; decorated treadends. Window panelling
and panelled shutters survive in ground-floor windows. Illustrated London
News, 31 August 1850: "Royal Visit to Castle Howard".

Listing NGR: SE7368166697

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602139

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)