Description

KESWICK STATION ROAD 1. ------------ 5161 Keswick Railway Station NY 2723 1/51 2.7.76. building and platform II

2. Now disused. Built 1860's for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Company. Lakeland green stone with green slate roof. Two 2-storeyed gabled wings joined by canopied entrance in middle with half-dormer above. Sash windows with sandstone dressings. Platform facade has 3 gables, and very fine glass canopy over the whole platform (about 240 ft) consisting of about 20 gabled bays (hipped on rails side), with cusped lower edging, supported on iron columns and iron arches with delicate iron tracery in spandrels. Stone paving to platform.

Listing NGR: NY2706623769

External Links

• Keswick railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6395286

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)