Latitude: 52.5683 / 52°34'5"N
Longitude: -0.3896 / 0°23'22"W
OS Eastings: 509247
OS Northings: 297939
OS Grid: TL092979
Mapcode National: GBR GY5.Y2C
Mapcode Global: WHGMB.ZPNX
Plus Code: 9C4XHJ96+85
Entry Name: 1846 Station Building at Wansford Station
Listing Date: 11 December 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274755
English Heritage Legacy ID: 414078
ID on this website: 101274755
Location: Sibson, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE8
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
Civil Parish: Sibson-cum-Stibbington
Traditional County: Huntingdonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Castor with Upton and Stibbington and Water Newton
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON
OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD (east side)
1846 Station Building at Wansford Station
(Formerly listed as Main building, Wansford Railway Station)
11.12.73
GV
II
Offices, formerly the main station building. Circa 1845. Jacobean style qv Stibbington Hall. Designed by J.W Livock; builder, Thompson of Barnack for L.N.W.R. Northampton-Peterborough line. Fine coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings. Welsh slated roofs.
Two storeys; original plan of waiting room and booking hall, and first floor station master's accommodation modified. Symmetrical facades of three bays with slightly projecting cross wings.
North facade: shaped parapet gables with apex and kneeler finials; ogee gable to semi oriel. Round headed arches to three central doorways with console keystones linked to cross wing doorways by a moulded cornice band. Three first floor two-light mullioned and transomed casement windows. Two side stacks and ridge stack and one internal stack with rebuilt brick shafts.
South facade; similar to north but with Venetian windows to wings and with side screens each with central doorways with round headed arches, door to right hand shaped to arch with six flush panels, door to left hand a replacement. Two doorways (left hand blocked) flank central window with round headed arches. Former canopy removed in 1957 when the station closed; it was sold in 1967.
Plan of Wansford Station, 1878. H.R.O.
Waszak, P Wansford Station, Nene Valley Railway Magazine Vols. 6-10
Listing NGR: TL0924797939
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