Listed Building: CASTLE RAILWAY STATION (3.54.134)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 384991
Date assigned 19 May 1971
Date last amended

Description

Railway station, now disused. 1846. Built for the Midland Railway Co. Yellow brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with 4 ridge stacks. Italianate style. Plinth, chamfered quoins, cornice and blocking course. Single storey; 9 window range of 8 pane sashes, some of them boarded up, arranged 1:2:3:2:1. Main block has on the entrance front a 3 bay projecting centre with paired pilasters flanking the doorway and single pilasters at the angles. Central flat gable with scroll brackets. 2 leaf door flanked by single windows and beyond, 2 similar windows on either side, the far right one blocked. All these windows have cornices with scroll brackets. At each end, a half-round projection. Eastern one has central 2 leaf door with overlight, flanked by single windows. Western one has blank central opening with door and overlight towards platform and single window towards entrance front. Platform side, with late C20 canopy, has a pilastered centre with 4 round headed openings, each with a 2-leaf door, the first from left blocked. All have blank fanlights. To left, 2 bays flanked by double pilasters, with 3 moulded segment headed recesses containing a blank window flanked by single doors. To right, 3 similar moulded recesses. Beyond, on either side a set back single bay, that to east with a window, that to west with a door and overlight. Interior has central booking hall with cornice and round cornered matchboard ticket office with 3 windows. Barrier and ticket racks remain. Corridors and waiting room have simple cornices. This station was one of the first to be opened by the newly formed Midland Railway Co. (EH)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 79605 54319 (29m by 36m)
Map sheet SK75SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Newark, Newark

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Record last edited

Nov 20 2017 1:29PM

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