Description

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SK 0642-0742
13/136

FARLEY C.P.
FARLEY LANE (south-west side)
Former waiting room, Alton Railway Station

GV
II
Former waiting room. Circa 1849. Rock faced ashlar with chamfered rustication and smooth faced ashlar dressings; hipped pan tile roofs with bracketed overhanging eaves; ashlar ridge stack. Italianate style; aligned east-west facing south, main range to the centre with shelter to the south and extensions to the north and west.

One storey; four bays, open fronted shelter with wooden piers bracketed to the eaves and wooden fretted fringe, two round-headed windows with bracketed sills; half-glazed doors to left and right with semi-circular fanlights, both doors and windows are recessed.

Alton railway station formerly served the now disused Churnet Valley Railway which opened in 1849.

Listing NGR: SK0706242684

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26289603

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6