Description

ST 79 SW CHARFIELD STATION ROAD (west side)

2/17 Former Booking Hall and Waiting
Room at Charfield Station
G.V.
II

Booking hall and waiting room, now disused. Circa 1843-44 for the Bristol and
Gloucester Railway : engineer, I.K. Brunel. Brick with freestone dressings
and quoins; slate roof with overhanging bracketted eaves and coped raised verges
on kneelers to the right; brick and ashlar square and diagonal stacks. In a
plain Tudor Gothic style. Single storey. Central door in chamfered ashlar
surround with 4-centred head. To the right is an advanced square bay (the
waiting room) and a single bay recessed section with a square headed door. 'To
the left is a smaller advanced square bay (the booking hall) and the recessed
parcels' office and office section. The windows are boarded - probably 2- and
3-light casements with chamfered surrounds. The buildings at Charfield Station
forms the only surviving intact group of buildings on the line - an important
line which completed the through route from Exeter to Newcastle in 1844.
(Buchanan L.A. and Buchanan R.A. Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology :
Central South England, 1980).

Listing NGR: ST7242892214

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408726

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)