Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE GREAT NORTH ROAD
619-1/5/140 (East side (off))
19/05/71 Castle Railway Station

GV II

Railway station, now disused. 1846. Built for the Midland
Railway Co. Yellow brick with ashlar dressings and hipped
slate roofs with 4 ridge stacks. Italianate style. Plinth,
chamfered quoins, cornice and blocking course. Single storey;
9 window range of 8 pane sashes, some of them boarded up,
arranged 1:2:3:2:1. Main block has on the entrance front a 3
bay projecting centre with paired pilasters flanking the
doorway and single pilasters at the angles. Central flat gable
with scroll brackets. 2 leaf door flanked by single windows
and beyond, 2 similar windows on either side, the far right
one blocked. All these windows have cornices with scroll
brackets. At each end, a half-round projection. Eastern one
has central 2 leaf door with overlight, flanked by single
windows. Western one has blank central opening with door and
overlight towards platform and single window towards entrance
front. Platform side, with late C20 canopy, has a pilastered
centre with 4 round headed openings, each with a 2-leaf door,
the first from left blocked. All have blank fanlights. To
left, 2 bays flanked by double pilasters, with 3 moulded
segment headed recesses containing a blank window flanked by
single doors. To right, 3 similar moulded recesses. Beyond, on
either side a set back single bay, that to east with a window,
that to west with a door and overlight. Interior has central
booking hall with cornice and round cornered matchboard ticket
office with 3 windows. Barrier and ticket racks remain.
Corridors and waiting room have simple cornices. This station
was one of the first to be opened by the newly formed Midland
Railway Co.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 192).

Listing NGR: SK7960854320

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Newark Castle railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4800289

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)