Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE COLWICK ROAD
646-1/7/163 (North side)
25/09/86 Crossing House Cottage

II

Railway crossing cottage, now house. c1846. Probably by TC
Hine of Nottingham for the Midland Railway. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with ashlar
coped gables and kneelers. Tudor Revival style.
Plinth, raised ashlar quoins, chamfered eaves band. Single
side wall chimney with moulded octagonal stack, and external
rear ashlar chimney. 2 storeys; single bay. T-plan. South
front has a central projecting wing with a 4-light cross
mullioned canted bay window, and above, a 2-light window. To
right, a small transomed window. To left, in the return angle,
an obliquely projecting gabled porch. West gable has a 4-light
cross mullioned canted by window, with a 2-light mullioned
window above. INTERIOR remodelled late C20.
This crossing house was built to serve the Nottingham-Lincoln
line engineered by George Stephenson and opened 1846.

Listing NGR: SK5947539661

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539757

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