Description

BUCKNELL C.P. CHAPEL LAWN ROAD (south SO 37 SE side), Bucknell 12/33 Bucknell Railway Station - - II

Railway station. Dated 1860 with minor later additions and alterations. Rock-faced limestone ashlar; machine tile roofs with fish scale bands and ornamental cresting. Elaborately cusped bargeboards to overhanging verges; stone ridge and end stacks with octagonal ceramic chimney pots. One and 2 storeys. Wooden mullioned and transomed windows throughout. Lower range to left has 3 bracketed gabled canopies, that to centre over infilled doorway and left and right over windows. Canted bay window to left gable end with blank stone shield in recess above. Centre section has prominent, slightly projecting gable to left with window on each floor and datestone "1860" in recessed quatrefoil to apex. 2 windows on each floor to right, upper right in steeply pitched gable breaking eaves. Lower section to right has window to ground floor and flat-roofed single-storey range to right again has window to left and 2 pointed doorways with boarded doors. Built for the Knighton Railway which was engineered by Henry Robertson.

Listing NGR: SO3556773668

External Links

• Bucknell railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q1936871

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