Latitude: 53.2175 / 53°13'2"N
Longitude: -1.6681 / 1°40'5"W
OS Eastings: 422258
OS Northings: 368985
OS Grid: SK222689
Mapcode National: GBR 57S.C2R
Mapcode Global: WHCD7.BDX8
Plus Code: 9C5W688J+XQ
Entry Name: Former Bakewell Railway Station
Listing Date: 28 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1316505
English Heritage Legacy ID: 468213
ID on this website: 101316505
Location: Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, DE45
County: Derbyshire
District: Derbyshire Dales
Civil Parish: Bakewell
Built-Up Area: Bakewell
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Bakewell All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: Railway station Former railway station
BAKEWELL
SK2268 STATION ROAD 831-1/5/175 (West side) 28/01/94 Former Bakewell Railway Station
GV II
Railway station now offices. 1861-62. By Edward Walker for the Midland Railway. Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings; patterned Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey, 4:3:4-bay symmetrical entrance front. Advanced gabled open porch supported on ornamental cast-iron columns; decorative wooden frieze. Central double doors and large overlight flanked by large margin-glazed sashes all beneath segmental arches. Outer bays have sill band to smaller margin-glazed sashes beneath lintel band which becomes the imposts of the central 3 bays. Bold eaves projection on shaped wooden brackets. Tall ashlar end stacks and 2 ridge stacks with stepped bases and caps. Former platform side: shallow canted parapet above blind arcade of stepped segmental arches originally enclosed beneath the multiple ridges of the platform canopy; carved foliage ornament to corbelled imposts. Beneath the 2 central arches are stone columns which support smaller arches above door and window openings. INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork to ceilings. A fireplace in the former booking hall; decorative arch-braced ceiling. Some interior partitioning. HISTORY: the line opened 1st August 1862 following the Midland Railway (Rowsley and Buxton) Act of 25th May 1860; closed 1967. Notable example of Midland Railway architecture in an area of Derbyshire where railway design was influenced by the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2225868985
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