Description

MINEHEAD

SS9646 THE ESPLANADE
900-1/3/84 (South side)
07/09/93 Railway Station

II

Railway station. 1872, extended c1897. Red sandstone rubble
with freestone dressings; continuous crested plain tile roof;
4 ridge stacks off-set below diagonal shafts, truncated except
one to inside left. Rectangular plan. Italianate Romanesque
style.
EXTERIOR: Single storey; 8-window range. Continuous chamfered
plinth. Semicircular arched openings with chamfered long/short
dressings and keystones. The first stage, to the right, was
symmetrical 4-window range; an almost full-height gabled porch
with 5 open trusses and tie bars, corbelled out over double
doors with a semicircular overlight is flanked by paired and
single windows. The windows are paired, separated by round
columns with cushion caps, with plate-glass sashes. 2
full-height openings to the c1897 block to the left have
segmental arches.
The booking office to the far left is of tongued-and-grooved
wood on a higher rubblestone plinth, articulated by panelled
pilasters with moulded capitals. The platform canopies and the
booking office have fretted wood fronts.
INTERIOR: noted as having original joinery and fireplaces.
HISTORY: The arrival of the railway to Minehead was the most
significant factor in its development as a resort. On 27 May
1872 the Minehead Railway Company accepted a tender for
building Minehead Station for »1,118.17s.6d from John Pearce.
In October 1882 the GWR converted the entire line from Taunton
to Minehead to narrow gauge in one weekend. On 1 July 1897 the
Minehead Railway amalgamated with the GWR.
(Clinker CR: The West Somerset Railway: The Exmoor Press:
1980-1986: 7).

Listing NGR: SS9748346304

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Minehead railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6864157

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