Description

STONE

SJ8934 STATION ROAD, Stone 651-1/5/63 (West side) 27/07/72 Stone Railway Station

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Railway station. c1848. Brick with blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings; 3-span tile roof with brick stacks. U-plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Entablature over ground floor; 3 shaped gables; end gables break forward, with quoins. Ground floor has central loggia with tripartite round arches on antae, faceted keys and some voussoirs; end elliptical-headed entrances with overlights of 2 elliptical-headed lights, 6-panel door, 4 faceted, to left, 4-panel door to right; similar return entrances to loggia have faceted-panel doors. End entrances flanked by 2-light double-chamfered-mullioned transomed windows, lights elliptical-headed above and below transoms; similar windows flank window to loggia, which has elliptical-headed casement with 3 lights above. 1st floor has central 5-light window, and end 3-light windows under dripstones. Cartouches to end gables. 2 stacks with ashlar cornices to valleys. Left return to platform has single-storey range, under hipped roof, with 4 entrances and windows of 2 and 3 lights; right end has 6-faceted-panel door, others half-glazed; 3-light window to 1st floor; addition to left end has entrance in architrave. Enriched cast-iron brackets to altered canopy. Right return is similar, with 3-light windows. Rear has projecting central gable with end stack; canted bay window to end of wing to left. INTERIOR: central room with cornice and moulded beams with panelled soffits.

Listing NGR: SJ8967134555

External Links

• Stone railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2749551

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  For the Record