Description

SK 30 NE SHACKERSTONE STATION ROAD

Shackerstone 2/99 Shackerstone Railway Station

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Railway Station. Circa 1873. Red brick with ashlar dressings, and hipped slate roofs with bracketed oversailing eaves and brick ridge stacks. Aligned north-south. The West front faces the station yard. Single-storey main block with lower single-storey wings set back slightly. The main block is in a rhythm of 3:3:3 bays with projecting centre. All windows are sashes with raised and moulded surrounds, raised keys, scrolled sides and bracketed sills. The central windows of the 2 outer portions are larger: Central 2-leaf panelled door with overlight and similar surround to the windows. The left-hand wing has a central doorway and a window to the right whereas the right-hand wing has 3 windows, the centre one larger. East front: 5-bay open centre portion with cast iron columns and openwork brackets. 3 windows to each side; the right-hand wing has a central door and 2 flanking windows; the left hand wing has a door to the left and a window to the right. Shackerstone railway station was designed and built by the Midland Railway Co. and served the line between Hinckley/Nuneaton and Ashby/Coalville. Passenger services began 1st September, 1873. P. Howard Anderson, The East Midlands,vol. 2 of Forgotten Railways, 2nd edition (1985) pp. 47 - 53.

Listing NGR: SK3788406569

External Links

• Shackerstone railway station at Wikipedia
• Shackerstone railway station official website
• Wikidata Q7460166

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)