Description

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RUSHTON C.P.
RUSHTON SPENCER
Rushton Spencer Station

GV
II
Railway station, now dwelling. 1844. Coursed and dressed sandstone rubble; banded and shaped tile roof; verge parapets with finials on corbelled kneelers; circular and diamond shafted corniced stone stacks. Irregular and complex plan with extended frontage to raised platform; Tudor style.

Entrance front of two-storey centre block and set-back flanking single-storey wings; centre block in three parts; projecting gabled two-storey porch to right of centre with two-light ovolo mullioned window in corbelled, projecting block surround to first floor over Tudor-arched two doorway with double, boarded doors; C20 datestone over, depicting Staffordshire knot and dated 1844; slightly set-back bay to right of porch with small gable and stack to apex; one small window to right of ground floor; slightly set-back, single-storey, parapetted and flat-roofed bay to left of porch with three-light ovolo mullioned casement window to centre, set against two-storey part, well set-back to rear with one window (similar to that below) of two lights also to centre; flanking single-storey wing to right has small segmental-arched sash window to right of centre and triangular bay window to right-hand end, corresponding left wing of three small windows and lower roofline to left-hand end.

Built for Leek and Macclesfield Railway, eventually taken over by the North Staffordshire Railway.

Listing NGR: SJ9358762465

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Rushton railway station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7380879

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)