Description

ILMINSTER

ST3414 STATION APPROACH
1939-1/6/121 (West side)
29/07/76 Former Great Western Railway Station

II

Railway station for the Great Western Railway. c1868.
Flemish-bond brick with limestone dressings to windows,
plinth-top, platband at impost-level and quoins to all
corners, including those of the chimney-stacks. Hipped slate
roof with stone ridges, which has wide, boarded eaves
supported by cast-iron brackets. Truncated H-shape plan.
Single-storey, symmetrical 4-window range. All windows are
square to the base, with 4-panes below semicircular-arched
tops with 2 panes; plain surrounds with small consoles
supporting the sills; the jambs step out at the top to meet
the imposts. The frames are C20. Bays to either side are
stepped-forward and have one window each. The C20 central
double doors with semicircular overlight are flanked by
similar windows. The stacks each end of the ridge have been
extended with C20 bricks. INTERIOR not inspected. The station
was on the Bristol and Exeter line, opened in 1868.

Listing NGR: ST3484914918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585761

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)