Description

POTTON STATION ROAD
TL 24NW
5/57 No. 48 (main passenger building
5.2.81 of the former Potton Railway
Station)
- II
House, formerly the main passenger building of Potton Railway Station. 1862.
Built by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway which was soon taken over by the
Great Eastern Railway. Yellow gault brick with ornamental dressings of red
and blue bricks. Other dressings in ashlar. Slate roofs. 2 storeyed station
house with single storeyed passenger wing to N. Sash windows. Variety of
ornamental detailing, including brick bands, moulded dentil eaves cornices,
and decorative bargeboards to gables on passenger building. Stone coped
gables to station house. Tall brick chimney stacks with moulded bases and
caps. 5 bay platform canopy of iron and glass on W side, the decorative
spandrels incorporating the date and the letters BC. A good example of
railway architecture of the period in relatively unaltered condition.

Listing NGR: TL2190349234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Potton railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7235374

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover