Description

STATION HILL
1.
5128
Main building of
Reading General Station
SU 7173 NE 1/363
SU 7173 12/363 21.1.76.
II
2.
1865-67, architect Mr Lane (Chief Engineer of the GWR Co). Enlargement and
remodelling of I K Brunel's original station of circa 1840. Italianate details.
2 storey symmetrical main building of buff brick from Coalbrookdale with Bath
stone dressings, rusticated quoins. 10 bays wide, slight break to centre 4.
Frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course, the projecting centre having console
brackets to the cornice and the blocking course raised as solid pediment.
The ground floor of the centre break has guilloche frieze and panelled pilasters
with wreath caps flanking the windows and doorways. Cornices on console brackets
over 1st floor windows, with triangular and segmental pediments over those
in centre break. Canopy across ground floor. Hipped slate roof, chimneys
removed. Pleasant central cupola, which has round headed lights and bracket
eaves to pyramidal roof with finial. Canopy extends over ground floor extensions
on both sides, about 12 bays to left and 7 to right.

Listing NGR: SU7148773820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Three Guineas at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26607754

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas