Description

TL 14SW SOUTHILL SHEFFORD ROAD

5/222 Southill Station

GV II

Railway station, now converted for residential use. One of the stations on
the Midland Line, this section opened 1857. Designed by C H Driver.
Simplified Venetian Gothic style. Yellow brick with polychrome brick
dressings. Slate roofs. T-plan. NE block of 2 storeys with gable to
platform, SE single storeyed block. Within angle on platform side is lower
block with 4 coped gablets. Most windows are paired round-headed lights with
cast iron casements in geometric design. Passenger entrance to lower block
has gabled hood on curved brackets. Entrance to NW elevation is via porch set
at an angle, with coped gable. Both doors have 2-centred arched heads. All
openings have polychrome brick heads and moulded dripstones. Polychrome
dentil cornice to eaves. Pierced wavy-edged bargeboards. Variety of chimney
stacks with moulded cornices. (The illustrated London News, 23rd May 1857).

Listing NGR: TL1295642382

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Southill railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7570829

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