Description

STATION ROAD
SX 9688
(off South Side)
8/1162
TOPSHAM
Railway Station
II

Former station building, now house and offices. Dated 1860, by Tite for the Exeter-Exmouth line, LSWR. Painted brickwork, asbestos cement slate to main building, slate to lower wing. Compact gabled main building with very large chimney stacks; lower wing (south end) now in separate ownership, to gabled
outer end. Front to railway: the low block has high coped gable at left end,
with small vent in gable top, then long front has 1:2:1-light canted bay, a
4-pane sash, a broad 4-centred opening now glazed, and a 2-light mullioned casement. Right of this the coped gable of the principal 2-storey building
with a recessed plain shield in gable above a 2-light at first floor and
3-light at ground floor. Low block has 2 lofty brick stacks, and main one
two broad eaves stacks to right. Beyond gable a stepped down wall with
blocked opening. Road front has narrow gable wing, left, with large 2-
light and 3 single lights on left return; at main front a 2 and 3-light
casement to first floor, an obstructed 3-light in the slightly set back
wing and a small 2-light square bay with hipped roof. Door, to left, is in
timber framed gabled porch, and has 4-centre head. Low wing to right has
three 2-light and a 4-centred opening with pair of doors with light over. Windows generally have flush set chamfered mullions. A neat little design,
the building lies close (c 35 metres) to the surviving signal box (qv).

Listing NGR: SX9666888365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518663

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)