Description

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CHOLSEY
READING ROAD
SUSBNE
2/10001 The Gables
GV II

Former station hotel/tavern. c1841, probably by I.K. Brunel for the
Great Western Railway. Painted red brick with stone dressings. Slated
roofs with 2 steeply pitched gables, having projecting eaves and
bargeboards, to each facade; tall brick chimney stacks, 2 rising from
ground floor through gables. Square plan with 2 bays to each facade.
2 storeys and attic. Main facade symmetrical with Tudor-arched
entrance flanked by transom and mullion windows to ground and 1st
floor; narrow vertically set window above entrance. Similar narrow
windows to attic. Other facades in similar style with half glazed
doors having intersecting tracery to glazing bars in Tudor arched
doorways; platform elevation has remains of a canopy flanked by 2
canted bay windows. Interior retains staircase with turned newels and
original panelled doors. This building is an early example of a
station hotel; the platform, with only a simple shelter, was reached
at the end of a sloping drive. It was originally named Wallingford
Road, being-renamed Moulsford station in 1866 after the opening of the
Wallingford Branch Line.

Listing NGR: SU5923185183

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26303983

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)