Description

ST MARTINS A 6136
NZ 10 SE (west side)

4/115 Station House

GV II

Station Master's house, now house. c1846. By G T Andrews for George
Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar
dressings, Welsh slate roof. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays with
rear wing to left. Plinth. Quoins. First-floor string course. Central
gabled bay breaks forward slightly and has board door in quoined triangular-
headed surround with sunk spandrels and hood-mould stepped up to string and
containing carving of parchment scroll. Quoined surrounds to mullion
windows, of 3 lights on ground floor, and 2 lights on first floor, that in
central bay with relieving arch. Gable over first bay has decorative
bargeboards and apex finial and pendant. Central gable has octagonal
crenellated finial. Finials also to left and right ends. Square and
octagonal stack between second and third bays, also at junction of main
house with rear wing. Interior: original doors, window shutters, fireplaces
and staircase. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1759700859

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603363

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments